Unscramble DEFO and you have 16 words, DEFO itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of DEFO is on the page: FEOD, each 8 points. Of the shorter words, FED, DEF and DOF lead with 7 points. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
DEOF unscrambles to DEFO: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for fode, fedo, edof, dofe, efod, edfo, dfoe, oedf or oefd? They use the same letters as DEFO, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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By length, the words from DEFO split into 2 with 4 letters, 6 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of DEFO but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with DE · ending in FO · all 4-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; FEOD (8 points) takes the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts DEFO, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEFO itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 16) | 14 | 16 | 12 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: DEFO and DOF. Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: DEF and FE.
These 5 words take every letter of DEFO plus a single extra one.