detergents needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detergents is the highest-scoring word from detergents, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detergents — and it is detergents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detergents turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is detergent, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greenest and resented. For points, the strongest plays are deterges and gettered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detergents produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with degrees, entered and genders. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including degrees, genders and greeted.
Unscrambling detergents turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with degree, desert and enters. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including degree, gender and edgers.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, edges and enter. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including edges, dregs and edger.
Rearranging the letters in detergents produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, edge and ends. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, edge, geds, and geed — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detergents turns up 34 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detergents. 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.
detergents 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 detergents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
detergents is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detergents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detergents, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detergents 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 detergents produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.