101 words come out when you unscramble DRIFTIER, starting with DRIFTIER itself: 12 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. DRIFTER is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Counting the words from DRIFTIER by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 4 with 6, 21 with 5, 30 with 4, 28 with 3 and 14 with 2.
DEFI, DEFT and DEIF are the top 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DRIFTIER, 8 points each. EDIT, FIRE and DIET will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DRIFTIER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DR · ending in ER · all 8-letter words
What DRIFTIER means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DRIFTIER, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRIFTIER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 101) | 78 | 99 | 74 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
21 of the 101 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: RIFTIER, DEIF, FIRIE, FREIT, RIFTE, TREIF, FIER, REFI, TERF, TIRRED, ERF, REIRD and 9 more. 4 of the 101 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DEF, DIF, FE and TE. 2 of the 101 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI and ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of DRIFTIER spell the words below.