detentes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detentes is the highest-scoring word from detentes, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in detentes — and it is detentes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detentes produces 2 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 detente and detents, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detentes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tested. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including tested, detent and detest.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detentes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needs, teens and tends. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including needs, tends and deets.
Rearranging the letters in detentes produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ends, need and nest. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including ends, need and seed.
Unscrambling detentes turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net and see. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including end, dee and den.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detentes. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in detentes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detentes 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.
detentes 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 one sense for detentes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
detentes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detentes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detentes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detentes 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 detentes produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.