Hidden inside dention is one standout: intoned, a seven-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ONNITED, ENTINDO or DENOINT and you get the same 7 letters as DENTION: so the words from DENTION listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
DENTION isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to INTONED (verb, form of intone), to speak in a singing voice, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
intoned is the highest-scoring word from dention, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dention produces exactly one seven-letter word: intoned. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dention. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are donne, ident, inned and 5 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dention produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine and done. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including diet, dine and done.
Unscrambling dention turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and end. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including die, dot and end.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in dention plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dention and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intoned, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dention 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 dention produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.