detailed needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detailed is the highest-scoring word from detailed, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in detailed — and it is detailed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detailed produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delated, dilated, and ideated, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detailed turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail, dialed, edited, and leaded. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including dialed, edited and leaded.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detailed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dated, dealt, and ideal. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including dated, addle and aided.
Rearranging the letters in detailed produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, dead and deal. For points, the strongest plays are dead, deed, and died — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detailed turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid and ate. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, and did — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detailed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in detailed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detailed 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.
detailed 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 one sense for detailed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
detailed is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detailed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detailed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detailed 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 detailed produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.