Hidden inside determines sit determines and misentered, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 586 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
determines and misentered tie for the highest Scrabble score from determines at 13 points. The top 10 of 586 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in determines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and determines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with determines. For points, the strongest plays are determines and misentered — 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 determines turns up 4 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: determine, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neediest, resented, and resident. For points, the strongest plays are deemster, dementis, demerits, deminers, demister, dimeters, emenders, remedies, reminted, sediment, and seedtime — 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 determines produces 73 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enemies, entered, entries, needier, reminds, steered, and teenier. For points, the strongest plays are dementi, dements, demerit, demesne, deminer, dimeter, emender, emersed, ermined, medrese, menders, merited, metered, minders, mindset, mistend, mitered, redeems, reedmen, remends, reminds, remised, retimed, seedmen, and sidemen — 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 determines turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert, desire, diners, driest, enters, and entire. For points, the strongest plays are dement, demies, demise, demist, demits, denims, dermis, dimers, emends, itemed, mender, mensed, merdes, metred, minder, minted, misted, mitred, redeem, remend, remind, seemed, teemed, 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 151 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets, dimes, diner, dines, dries, and edits. For points, the strongest plays are deems, deism, demes, demit, denim, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, emend, meeds, mends, merde, meted, midst, minds, mined, mired, rimed, and timed — 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 determines produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mind, mine, mint, need, nerd, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are meds, meed, mend, mids, mind, deem, deme, derm, dime, dims, and idem — 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 determines turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, its, men, met, and net. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in determines plus one additional letter.
determines 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 eight senses for determines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
determines is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing determines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are determines and misentered, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from determines 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 determines produce 586 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 27 eight-letter words, 73 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 151 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.