determination needs no unscrambling at all — the thirteen-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
determination is the highest-scoring word from determination, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one thirteen-letter word uses the letters in determination — and it is determination itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determination. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are determinant, detrainment, remediation, and renominated, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in determination produces 21 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antimodern, antimonide, denominate, detainment, dinnertime, emendation, endometria, intermedin, meditation, ordainment, ornamented, and terminated, each 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 determination turns up 45 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detention, entertain, mentioned, nominated, and tradition. For points, the strongest plays are adornment, detriment, diatomite, emendator, intimated, mediation, meditator, menadione, mentioned, midinette, minareted, netminder, nominated, tormented, and trematode — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 95 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with internet, intimate, mattered, nominate, and remained. For points, the strongest plays are admittee, admitter, demeanor, dementia, demonian, diameter, diatreme, diriment, dominant, dominate, domineer, dormient, enamored, entoderm, imitated, indamine, mannered, mattered, mediator, meditate, mentored, meridian, mittened, moderate, nematode, normande, radiomen, remained, remanned, reminted, and remitted — 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 determination produces 145 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edition, martini, mention, trained, and treated. For points, the strongest plays are amender, amidine, amidone, dementi, demerit, demeton, deminer, diamine, dimeter, domaine, dominie, dormant, emeroid, emitted, ermined, inarmed, indamin, madrone, mattoid, meander, mediant, mediate, merited, midiron, minored, mitered, moderne, mordant, mordent, omitted, readmit, reedman, remated, renamed, retimed, teendom, and timider — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling determination turns up 252 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, attend, dinner, donate, dreamt, earned, and editor. For points, the strongest plays are admire, aidmen, amidin, daemon, daimen, daimio, daimon, damner, demean, dement, demote, diamin, diatom, domain, domine, dormie, dormin, dreamt, emerod, emodin, emoted, itemed, maiden, manned, mantid, marted, matted, meated, mediae, median, medina, mender, metred, midair, minder, minted, mitred, moaned, moated, modern, monied, nimrod, normed, oedema, omened, radome, random, reamed, remade, remand, remend, remind, roamed, rodman, rodmen, tandem, teamed, and termed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 244 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, adore, aimed, aired, armed, demon, and diner. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admen, admin, admit, aimed, amend, amide, amido, armed, demit, demoi, demon, denim, derma, dimer, diram, dream, edema, emend, idiom, imide, imido, madre, maned, mated, media, medii, menad, merde, meted, mined, mired, mirid, monad, monde, named, nomad, rimed, tamed, timed, and timid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in determination produces 233 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom, made, maid, main, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, maid, mead, meed, mend, midi, mind, mode, modi, dame, damn, deem, deme, demo, derm, dime, dome, dorm, dram, idem, and imid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling determination turns up 118 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, air, and, ant, are, and arm. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dom, mad, med, mid, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, do, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 fourteen-letter words can be made using all the letters in determination plus one additional letter.
determination 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for determination. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
determination is the only thirteen-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing determination unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is determination, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from determination 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 determination produce 1195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 thirteen-letter word, 5 eleven-letter words, 21 ten-letter words, 45 nine-letter words, 95 eight-letter words, 145 seven-letter words, 252 six-letter words, 244 five-letter words, 233 four-letter words, 118 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.