Unscramble DEFOCUS to get 114 words. DEFOCUS itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. DEFOCUS has 1 anagram here, FOCUSED, scoring 13 like DEFOCUS itself. Of the shorter words, FUCOSE leads with 11 points. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. DEFOCUS as a single 7-tile play makes 63 in Scrabble, 13 plus the 50 bonus, and 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DEFOCUS split into 2 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 17 with 5, 39 with 4, 39 with 3 and 13 with 2.
FUSC tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DEFOCUS at 9 points; next come DEFO and FEDS on 8. USED, DOES and CODE will look familiar.
These 6 words have the length of DEFOCUS, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with DE · ending in US · all 7-letter words
DEFOCUS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DEFOCUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEFOCUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 114) | 89 | 114 | 81 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 25 of them: FOUDS, FUSC, SOUCED, COSED, DEFO, DOCUS, DOUCS, FOUD, DOCU, DOF, DOUC, ECOD and 13 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: COUDES, DEF, ECOS, FES, ECO, FE, SOC and EDS.
Each word below uses all the letters of DEFOCUS and one more.