Unscramble DEFENSED to get 73 words. DEFENSED itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is DEFENDS, 12 points. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
D2E1F4E1N12S1E1D2
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DEFENSED split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 8 with 6, 12 with 5, 23 with 4, 19 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of DEFENSED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ED · all 8-letter words
DEFENSED first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. DEFENSED is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEFENSED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 73) | 54 | 73 | 48 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FEESED, FEENS, FEESE, FEEN, NEESED, NEFS, DEENS, NEF, SNEED, DEEN, NEDS, NEESE and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DESEED, DEF, FES, FE, EDS and ESNE, 6 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of DEFENSED and one more.