detainment needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 278 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detainment is the highest-scoring word from detainment, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 278 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detainment — and it is detainment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainment. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are admittee, dementia, meditate, and mittened, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detainment produces 16 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 dementi, emitted, mediant, and mediate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detainment turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, intend, maiden, and tanned. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, aidmen and daimen.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and eaten. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and media.
Rearranging the letters in detainment produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and date. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling detainment turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in detainment plus one additional letter.
detainment 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 3-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 detainment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
detainment is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detainment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detainment, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detainment 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 detainment produce 278 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.