deflection needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 406 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deflection is the highest-scoring word from deflection, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 406 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in deflection — and it is deflection itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deflection turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defection and inflected, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deflection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with election and infected. For points, the strongest play is infected — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deflection produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noticed. For points, the strongest plays are clefted, confide, and deflect — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deflection turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with client, coined, decent, define, infect, lifted, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are coifed, defect, and fenced — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deflection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone, elect, fence, field, filed, lined, and niece. For points, the strongest plays are cleft, clift, fence, and folic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deflection produces 142 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cold, cone, deli, and dice. For points, the strongest plays are clef, coft, coif, fice, fico, flic, floc, and foci — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deflection turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, dot, elf, end, fed, and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deflection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, if, in, it, no, and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in deflection plus one additional letter.
deflection is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for deflection. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
deflection is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deflection unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deflection, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deflection earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in deflection produce 406 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.