Hidden inside define sit define and infeed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
define and infeed tie for the highest Scrabble score from define at 10 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in define: one comes from rearranging its letters, and define itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define. For points, the strongest plays are define and infeed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in define. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fiend and fined, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in define produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, feed and find. For points, the strongest plays are defi, feed, fend, and find — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling define turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, fed, and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in define. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in define plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in define and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
define 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 1-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 define. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
define is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing define unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are define and infeed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from define 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 define produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.