detections 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, 443 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detections is the highest-scoring word from detections, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 443 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detections — and it is detections itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detections turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contested, detection, and sectioned, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detections. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is codeines, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detections produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest, dentist, detects, noticed, notices, and section. For points, the strongest plays are cestode, cestoid, codeine, codeins, coedits, ctenoid, deceits, deontic, descent, detects, diocese, docents, encodes, enticed, escoted, noticed, scented, seconde, secondi, and tincted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detections turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, costed, decent, denies, detect, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are censed, cisted, codein, codens, coedit, coined, cosied, costed, deceit, decent, deices, detect, dicots, docent, edenic, edicts, encode, and second — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, codes, coins, cones, dices, diets, and dines. For points, the strongest plays are cedes, cedis, cited, coden, codes, coeds, coned, coted, decos, deice, dices, dicot, disco, edict, scend, and sodic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detections produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, cons, cost, and dice. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, code, cods, coed, deco, dice, disc, docs, iced, and odic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detections turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, dot, end, ice, ids, and its. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 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 detections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
detections 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for detections. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
detections is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detections unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detections, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detections 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 detections produce 443 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.