Hidden inside detector sit cottered and detector, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cottered and detector tie for the highest Scrabble score from detector at 11 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in detector: one comes from rearranging its letters, and detector itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detector. For points, the strongest plays are cottered and detector — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling detector produces exactly one seven-letter word: tetrode. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detector turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detect. For points, the strongest plays are detect and recode — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detector. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceder, cered, coder, cored, coted, credo, creed, and decor, 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 detector produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord, core, deer, rode, tore, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, coed, cord, cred, and deco — 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 detector turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, red, rod, and toe. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detector. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, 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.
Swap a single tile in detector 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.
detector 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 three senses for detector. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
detector is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detector unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cottered and detector, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detector 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 detector produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.