Unscramble DEFLECTS and you have 144 words, DEFLECTS itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2E1F4L12E1C34T1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DEFLECTS split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 11 with 6, 32 with 5, 55 with 4, 32 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DEFLECTS are led by CLEFS, CLEFT and FECES, 10 points each. STEEL, FEEDS and FEELS are the familiar ones.
CLEF tops the 4-letter words from DEFLECTS at 9 points; next come DEFT and DELF on 8. LEFT, SELF and FEEL will look familiar.
Trade one tile of DEFLECTS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
The meaning of DEFLECTS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DEFLECTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEFLECTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 144) | 124 | 144 | 110 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 20 of them: ELFED, LEFTE, ELFS, LESTED, STEELD, TEFS, SEELD, STEDE, TEF, LEED, SELD, STED and 8 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: DEF, FEST, DELTS, FES, LEDES, TECS, DELT, FE, LEDE, TEC, EDS, EST and 2 more.