desertion needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 570 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
desertion is the highest-scoring word from desertion, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 570 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in desertion — and it is desertion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resident. For points, the strongest plays are indorsee, inserted, nerdiest, oriented, resident, sintered, and trendies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in desertion produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, entries, and steroid. For points, the strongest plays are deniers, denotes, destine, diester, dieters, dineros, editors, endites, endorse, erodent, indorse, nereids, oersted, ordines, oreides, osiered, reedits, resined, resited, rodents, rosined, snorted, sordine, sortied, sterned, steroid, storied, tenders, teredos, tinders, and triodes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling desertion turns up 118 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert, desire, diners, driest, editor, and enters. For points, the strongest plays are denier, denies, denote, denser, desert, desire, deters, dienes, dieter, dinero, diners, direst, donees, donsie, dories, doters, dotier, driest, droits, drones, editor, eiders, enders, endite, erodes, idents, ironed, nereid, nested, noised, onside, oreide, redoes, redone, redons, reedit, reined, rented, resend, reside, rested, retied, rident, rinsed, rioted, rodent, rondes, seined, sender, snider, snored, sonder, sorned, sorted, stoned, stored, stride, strode, teinds, tender, tensed, teredo, tiered, tinder, todies, trends, trined, and triode — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 160 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets, diner, dines, dries, edits, and enter. For points, the strongest plays are deers, deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, deter, diene, diets, diner, dines, dinos, dints, dirts, dites, doers, doest, doits, donee, dores, doser, doter, dotes, drees, drest, dries, droit, drone, edits, eider, eidos, ender, erode, ident, needs, nerds, nides, nodes, nosed, noted, odist, redes, redon, redos, reeds, rends, resid, resod, rides, rinds, rodes, roids, ronde, rosed, seder, sered, sired, sited, snide, sonde, sored, steed, stied, teind, tends, tides, tined, tired, tondi, toned, treed, trend, tried, and trode — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in desertion produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with need, nerd, nest, nets, nose, note, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are need, nerd, nide, node, nodi, nods, odes, rede, redo, reds, reed, rend, ride, rids, rind, rode, rods, roid, seed, send, side, sned, sord, deer, dees, deet, dene, deni, dens, dent, dere, desi, dies, diet, dine, dino, dins, dint, dire, dirt, dite, dits, doer, does, doit, done, dons, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, dree, edit, eide, ends, ides, ired, teds, teed, tend, tide, tied, tods, toed, and trod — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling desertion turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, end, ids, its, net, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are dee, den, die, din, dis, dit, doe, don, dor, dos, dot, eds, end, ids, nod, ode, ods, red, rid, rod, sod, ted, and tod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
10 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in desertion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in desertion 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.
desertion 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for desertion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
desertion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing desertion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is desertion, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from desertion 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 desertion produce 570 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 118 six-letter words, 160 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.