Hidden inside detainer sit detainer and retained, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detainer and retained tie for the highest Scrabble score from detainer at 9 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in detainer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and detainer 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 detainer and retained, 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 detainer produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trained. For points, the strongest plays are antired, detrain, and trained — 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 detainer turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned, entire, neater, rained, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are aedine, aeried, airted, anteed, ardent, dearie, denari, denier, derate, detain, dieter, earned, endear, endite, ideate, neared, nereid, nidate, rained, ranted, redate, rediae, reedit, reined, rented, retied, rident, teared, tender, tiered, tinder, tirade, and trined — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, diner, drain, eaten, enter, tired, and trade. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, anted, dater, deair, denar, derat, deter, diene, dinar, diner, drain, eared, eider, ender, ident, irade, nadir, ranid, rated, redan, redia, tared, teind, tined, tired, trade, tread, treed, trend, triad, and tried — 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 detainer produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, deer, diet, dine, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dare, darn, dart, date, dean, dear, deer, deet, dene, deni, dent, dere, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirt, dita, dite, drat, dree, edit, eide, idea, ired, nard, need, nerd, nide, raid, rand, read, rede, reed, rend, ride, rind, teed, tend, tide, tied, and trad — 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 detainer turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dan, dee, den, die, din, dit, end, rad, red, rid, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, 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.
19 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in detainer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detainer 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.
detainer 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.
detainer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detainer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detainer and retained, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detainer 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 detainer produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.