Hidden inside detach sit cathed and detach, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cathed and detach tie for the highest Scrabble score from detach at 12 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in detach: one comes from rearranging its letters, and detach itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cathed and detach, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detach. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cheat, death, hated, and teach. For points, the strongest play is ached — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detach produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chat, date, each, hate, head, and heat. For points, the strongest play is chad — 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 detach turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, had, hat, and tad. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detach. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in detach and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
detach 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in detach carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for detach. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
detach is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detach unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cathed and detach, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detach 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 detach produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.