detergency needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detergency is the highest-scoring word from detergency, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detergency — and it is detergency itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergency. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centered, decenter, and decentre, each 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 detergency produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered and greeted. For points, the strongest play is regency — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detergency turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, decent, degree, energy, gender, greedy, and recent. For points, the strongest play is cygnet — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, entry, green, greet, needy, and teeny. For points, the strongest plays are cyder and decry — each 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 detergency produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, deer, deny, edge, gene, grey, and need. For points, the strongest play is edgy — 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 detergency turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, dry, dye, end, eye, gee, and get. For points, the strongest play is cry — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergency. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
detergency 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 one sense for detergency. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
detergency is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detergency unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detergency, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detergency 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 detergency produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.