Unscramble DEFAT and you have 42 words, DEFAT itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. DEFAT has 1 anagram here, FATED, scoring 9 like DEFAT itself. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
D2E1F4A1T1
Counting the words from DEFAT by length: 2 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 17 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Keep every letter of DEFAT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with DE · ending in AT · all 5-letter words
What DEFAT means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DEFAT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEFAT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 36 | 42 | 32 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 6 of them: FAE, TEF, TAED, TEAD, DAE and EA. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: DEF, FE, DA and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of DEFAT and one more.