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Words from letters DEFENDING

From the letters DEFENDING, you can form as many as 123 words - Check which ones

9 letter words:

  • defending15

7 letter words:

  • defined12
  • feeding12
  • feigned12
  • fending12
  • deeding10
  • deigned10
  • engined9
  • needing9
What words can be composed of letters DEFENDING

6 letter words:

  • fidged12
  • defend11
  • defied11
  • fended11
  • define10
  • feeing10
  • finned10
  • dinged9
  • deeing8
  • denied8
  • denned8
  • dinned8
  • ending8
  • genned8
  • ginned8
  • indeed8
  • engine7
  • indene7

5 letter words:

  • fidge10
  • feign9
  • fiend9
  • fined9
  • edged8
  • deign7
  • dined7
  • dinge7
  • ended7
  • nided7
  • diene6
  • eigne6
  • genie6
  • inned6

4 letter words:

  • defi8
  • deif8
  • feed8
  • fend8
  • find8
  • feen7
  • feni7
  • fine7
  • neif7
  • nief7
  • nife7
  • deed6
  • deid6
  • died6
  • ding6
  • edge6
  • geed6
  • gied6
  • deen5
  • dene5
  • deni5
  • dine5
  • eide5
  • gene5
  • gien5
  • ginn5
  • idee5
  • need5
  • nide5
  • nied5
  • eine4
  • nene4
  • nine4

3 letter words:

  • def7
  • dif7
  • fed7
  • feg7
  • fid7
  • fig7
  • gif7
  • fee6
  • fen6
  • fie6
  • fin6
  • nef6
  • deg5
  • did5
  • dig5
  • ged5
  • gid5
  • dee4
  • dei4
  • den4
  • die4
  • din4
  • end4
  • eng4
  • gee4
  • gen4
  • gie4
  • gin4
  • ide4
  • ned4
  • neg4
  • nid4
  • een3
  • ene3
  • inn3
  • nee3
  • nie3

2 letter words:

  • ef5
  • fe5
  • if5
  • de3
  • di3
  • ed3
  • gi3
  • id3
  • ee2
  • en2
  • in2
  • ne2

DEFENDING - Questions and Answers (FAQ)

What are the longest words that can be formed from the letters DEFENDING?

The longest word that can be formed from the letters DEFENDING is the word Defending. Number of letters: 9.
The second longest word is the word Deeding. Number of letters: 7.

What anagrams can be formed from the word DEFENDING?

Unfortunately, in English, there is no word that is an anagram of the word Defending.

How many points in Scrabble can we earn for the words formed from the letters D,E,F,E,N,D,I,N,G?

The highest-scoring word that can be formed from the letters DEFENDING is the word Defending. The number of points that can be earned for it is: 15.The second highest-scoring word is the word Defined. The possible number of points is: 12.

How many letters does the word DEFENDING have? How many vowels and consonants does it have?

Word Defending - number of letters: 9. The word Defending contains vowels. The number of vowels is: 3. The list of vowels present in this word is: E, E, I. The word Defending contains consonants. The number of consonants is: 6. The list of consonants present in this word is: D, D, F, G, N, N.

How to properly pronounce the word DEFENDING?


Letter Analysis - word DEFENDING

The word DEFENDING, after removing repeating characters, consists of the letters: D, E, F, G, I, N. Below, we will analyze each one of them.

The letter D in the word DEFENDING

Words that start with the letter D
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 4 0,0
3 66 0,4
4 318 2,0
5 650 4,1
6 1138 7,1
7 1754 11,0
8 2156 13,5
9 2307 14,5
10 2155 13,5
11 1810 11,4
12 1438 9,0
13 1006 6,3
14 672 4,2
15 443 2,8
Words ending with the letter D
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 4 0,0
3 76 0,3
4 295 1,2
5 807 3,3
6 2482 10,3
7 3497 14,5
8 4430 18,4
9 4166 17,3
10 3400 14,1
11 2330 9,7
12 1398 5,8
13 671 2,8
14 384 1,6
15 157 0,7
Occurrences of the letter D in English words
Number of occurrences of the letter D The number of words [%]
0 195400 73,0
1 63632 23,8
2 8083 3,0
3 611 0,2
4 25 0,0

The letter E in the word DEFENDING

Words that start with the letter E
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 12 0,1
3 58 0,5
4 158 1,4
5 288 2,6
6 673 6,1
7 1169 10,6
8 1638 14,9
9 1830 16,6
10 1677 15,2
11 1279 11,6
12 958 8,7
13 653 5,9
14 371 3,4
15 266 2,4
Words ending with the letter E
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 14 0,1
3 107 0,4
4 689 2,5
5 1477 5,4
6 2627 9,6
7 3501 12,8
8 4448 16,3
9 4844 17,7
10 3621 13,2
11 2594 9,5
12 1630 6,0
13 985 3,6
14 527 1,9
15 286 1,0
Occurrences of the letter E in English words
Number of occurrences of the letter E The number of words [%]
0 81615 30,5
1 114602 42,8
2 55768 20,8
3 13772 5,1
4 1842 0,7
5 152 0,1

The letter F in the word DEFENDING

Words that start with the letter F
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 3 0,0
3 58 0,6
4 251 2,5
5 575 5,7
6 960 9,5
7 1421 14,0
8 1811 17,9
9 1643 16,2
10 1275 12,6
11 893 8,8
12 590 5,8
13 353 3,5
14 218 2,1
15 90 0,9
Words ending with the letter F
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 3 0,6
3 25 4,9
4 114 22,2
5 80 15,6
6 57 11,1
7 68 13,3
8 55 10,7
9 58 11,3
10 29 5,7
11 13 2,5
12 11 2,1
Occurrences of the letter F in English words
Number of occurrences of the letter F The number of words [%]
0 241957 90,4
1 22801 8,5
2 2864 1,1
3 115 0,0
4 14 0,0

The letter G in the word DEFENDING

Words that start with the letter G
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 3 0,0
3 59 0,7
4 269 3,0
5 608 6,8
6 997 11,2
7 1382 15,5
8 1420 15,9
9 1291 14,5
10 1039 11,7
11 778 8,7
12 490 5,5
13 305 3,4
14 184 2,1
15 89 1,0
Words ending with the letter G
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 2 0,0
3 72 0,4
4 138 0,7
5 135 0,7
6 665 3,4
7 2263 11,7
8 2917 15,0
9 3347 17,2
10 3192 16,4
11 2800 14,4
12 1948 10,0
13 1117 5,8
14 523 2,7
15 303 1,6
Occurrences of the letter G in English words
Number of occurrences of the letter G The number of words [%]
0 206889 77,3
1 54449 20,3
2 5814 2,2
3 564 0,2
4 34 0,0
5 1 0,0

The letter I in the word DEFENDING

Words that start with the letter I
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 6 0,1
3 26 0,3
4 69 0,7
5 157 1,7
6 375 4,0
7 651 6,9
8 957 10,2
9 1232 13,1
10 1358 14,5
11 1341 14,3
12 1192 12,7
13 921 9,8
14 611 6,5
15 494 5,3
Words ending with the letter I
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 14 0,9
3 32 2,2
4 145 9,8
5 253 17,2
6 270 18,3
7 255 17,3
8 195 13,2
9 140 9,5
10 93 6,3
11 38 2,6
12 21 1,4
13 13 0,9
14 5 0,3
Occurrences of the letter I in English words
Number of occurrences of the letter I The number of words [%]
0 107284 40,1
1 111312 41,6
2 39717 14,8
3 8146 3,0
4 1170 0,4
5 113 0,0
6 9 0,0

The letter N in the word DEFENDING

Words that start with the letter N
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 5 0,1
3 50 0,8
4 160 2,6
5 317 5,1
6 467 7,5
7 661 10,7
8 762 12,3
9 878 14,1
10 789 12,7
11 648 10,4
12 537 8,7
13 428 6,9
14 295 4,8
15 208 3,4
Words ending with the letter N
Number of letters The number of words [%]
2 5 0,0
3 82 0,7
4 252 2,2
5 512 4,4
6 1196 10,2
7 1431 12,3
8 1552 13,3
9 1423 12,2
10 1164 10,0
11 1114 9,5
12 982 8,4
13 891 7,6
14 646 5,5
15 421 3,6
Occurrences of the letter N in English words
Number of occurrences of the letter N The number of words [%]
0 137492 51,4
1 100778 37,6
2 25878 9,7
3 3322 1,2
4 268 0,1
5 13 0,0

The number of letters in the word DEFENDING: 9

Below we present the statistics of the occurrence of other 9-letter words in English. Analysis by first and last letter

Compilation of 9-letter words, sorted by the first letter
The first letter in the word The number of words [%]
A 2471 6,1
B 2356 5,8
C 3737 9,2
D 2307 5,7
E 1830 4,5
F 1643 4,0
G 1291 3,2
H 1435 3,5
I 1232 3,0
J 312 0,8
K 383 0,9
L 1100 2,7
M 2217 5,4
N 878 2,2
O 1401 3,4
P 3467 8,5
Q 206 0,5
R 2269 5,6
S 4904 12,0
T 2009 4,9
U 1411 3,5
V 703 1,7
W 882 2,2
X 44 0,1
Y 86 0,2
Z 153 0,4
Summary of words with 9 letters, according to the letter they end with
The last letter in the word The number of words [%]
A 635 1,6
B 22 0,1
C 874 2,1
D 4166 10,2
E 4844 11,9
F 58 0,1
G 3347 8,2
H 453 1,1
I 140 0,3
K 357 0,9
L 1076 2,6
M 759 1,9
N 1423 3,5
O 148 0,4
P 138 0,3
R 2074 5,1
S 15614 38,3
T 2215 5,4
U 14 0,0
V 1 0,0
W 43 0,1
X 43 0,1
Y 2274 5,6
Z 9 0,0

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