detectors needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detectors is the highest-scoring word from detectors, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in detectors — and it is detectors itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detectors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detector. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including detector, corseted and cottered.
Rearranging the letters in detectors produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detects. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including detects, cestode and crested.
Unscrambling detectors turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costed, desert and detect. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including costed, detect and scored.
There are 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detectors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cords and cores. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including codes, cords and ceder.
Rearranging the letters in detectors produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including code, cord and cede.
Unscrambling detectors turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, red and rod. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detectors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in detectors 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.
detectors 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 detectors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
detectors is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detectors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detectors, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detectors 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 detectors produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.