determine needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
determine is the highest-scoring word from determine, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in determine — and it is determine itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling determine produces exactly one eight-letter word: reminted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in determine produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered, needier, and teenier. For points, the strongest plays are dementi, demerit, deminer, dimeter, emender, ermined, merited, metered, mitered, reedmen, and retimed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling determine turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire, remind, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are dement, itemed, mender, metred, minder, minted, mitred, redeem, remend, remind, teemed, and termed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, enter, meter, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are demit, denim, dimer, emend, merde, meted, mined, mired, rimed, and timed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in determine produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet, dime, dine, dirt, edit, and item. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, derm, dime, idem, meed, mend, and mind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling determine turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, men, met, net, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in determine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in determine and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
determine is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for determine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
determine is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing determine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is determine, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from determine earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in determine produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 16 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.