detainees 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, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detainees is the highest-scoring word from detainees, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in detainees — and it is detainees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neediest. For points, the strongest plays are andesite, detainee, and neediest — 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 detainees produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instead. For points, the strongest plays are aniseed, destain, destine, detains, endites, ideates, instead, nidates, sainted, satined, stained, and standee — 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 detainees turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are aedine, anteed, denies, detain, dienes, endite, ideate, idents, nested, nidate, sained, seated, sedate, seined, staned, teased, teinds, and tensed — 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates, diets, dines, eased, eaten, and edits. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aedes, aides, anted, aside, dates, deans, deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, diene, diets, dines, dints, ditas, dites, eased, edits, ideas, ident, needs, nides, saned, sated, sedan, sited, snide, stade, staid, stand, stead, steed, stied, tased, teind, tends, tides, tined, tsade, and tsadi — 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 detainees produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, date, dies, diet, dine, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, ands, dais, dans, date, dean, dees, deet, dene, deni, dens, dent, desi, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dita, dite, dits, edit, eide, ends, idea, ides, need, nide, sade, sadi, said, sand, seed, send, side, sned, tads, teds, teed, tend, 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 detainees turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ate, die, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, and, dan, das, dee, den, die, din, dis, dit, eds, end, ids, sad, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in detainees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detainees 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.
detainees 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 detainees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
detainees is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detainees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detainees, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detainees 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 detainees produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.