Hidden inside detaches sit detaches and sacheted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detaches and sacheted tie for the highest Scrabble score from detaches at 14 points. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in detaches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and detaches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detaches and sacheted, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detaches produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheated and teaches. For points, the strongest plays are cheated, chested, and scathed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detaches turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashed, ceased and chased. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including cashed, chased and cathed.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cease and chase. For points, the strongest plays are ached, chads, and eched — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detaches produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case and cash. For points, the strongest play is chad — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detaches turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and ash. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in detaches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detaches and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
detaches 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 detaches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for detaches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
detaches is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detaches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detaches and sacheted, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detaches 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 detaches produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.