Jumble solved
Is DEFEATURE a word? Yes.
DEFEATURE is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 9 letters, worth 13 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 164 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 164
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 9 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 5 : 4
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 5 vowels (E, E, A, U, E) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 4 remaining consonants (D, F, T, R).
Anagrams of DEFEATURE
One word uses all 9 letters:
- defeature
9-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
4 words found7-letter words
3 words found6-letter words
17 words found+ 2 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
28 words found+ 13 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
52 words found+ 37 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
43 words found+ 28 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
16 words found+ 1 more 2-letter word
Words hidden inside DEFEATURE
Without moving a single letter, reading defeature straight through uncovers 5 shorter words — feature, defeat, feat, def, eat. The longest unbroken run is feature.
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Shorter words inside DEFEATURE — solve each on its own:
Add one letter to DEFEATURE
Slot in one more tile — any letter — and defeature opens up 1 10-letter word. Handy when a puzzle gives you a blank or an extra square.
Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
9
Distinct
7
Vowels
56%
E, E, A, U, E
Consonants
44%
D, F, T, R
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Solving DEFEATURE: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters defeature?
Rearranging the 9 letters in defeature produces 164 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 9-letter answer defeature here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does defeature have any anagrams?
Using all 9 letters, defeature rearranges into exactly one word: defeature.
What is the longest word you can make from defeature?
The longest solution is defeature at 9 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from defeature?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: defeature yields aft, are, arf, art, ate, dee, def, due, ear and eat. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from defeature scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, defeature is the top scorer from defeature at 13 points, followed by defeater (12), featured (12) and federate (12). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside defeature?
Read left to right without moving any letters and defeature already contains 5 shorter words: feature, defeat, feat, def and eat. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is feature. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.