Hidden inside detail sit detail, dilate, and tailed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detail, dilate, and tailed tie for the highest Scrabble score from detail at 7 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in detail: two come from rearranging its letters, and detail itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail. For points, the strongest plays are detail, dilate, and tailed — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt and ideal. For points, the strongest plays are ailed, dealt, delta, ideal, lated, tidal, tilde, and tiled — 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 detail produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal, deli, dial, diet, edit, and idea. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, dale, date, deal, deil, deli, delt, dial, diel, diet, dita, dite, edit, idea, idle, lade, laid, lead, lied, tide, and tied — 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 detail turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, ate, die, eat, lad, led, and let. For points, the strongest plays are aid, dal, del, die, dit, eld, lad, led, lid, tad, and ted — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 detail 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.
detail 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 seven senses for detail. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
detail is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detail unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detail, dilate, and tailed, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detail 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 detail produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.