Hidden inside deterge sit deterge and greeted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deterge and greeted tie for the highest Scrabble score from deterge at 9 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in deterge: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deterge itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greeted. For points, the strongest plays are deterge and greeted — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deterge produces exactly one six-letter word: degree. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deterge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet. For points, the strongest plays are edger and greed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deterge produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, edge, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, edge, and geed — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deterge turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, and red. For points, the strongest play is ged — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deterge. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in deterge and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
deterge 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 deterge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
deterge is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deterge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deterge and greeted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deterge 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 deterge produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.