detergent needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detergent is the highest-scoring word from detergent, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in detergent — and it is detergent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergent. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gettered, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detergent produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered and greeted. For points, the strongest plays are deterge, greened, greeted, and reneged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detergent turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with degree, gender, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are degree and gender — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green, and greet. For points, the strongest plays are edger and greed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detergent produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, edge and gene. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, edge, and geed — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detergent turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, gee and get. For points, the strongest play is ged — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergent. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in detergent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detergent 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.
detergent 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 three senses for detergent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
detergent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detergent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detergent, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detergent 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 detergent produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.