Hidden inside deterpn is one standout: pretend, a seven-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DETERPN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PRETEND (verb), to assume or display a false appearance of, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
pretend is the highest-scoring word from deterpn, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling deterpn produces exactly one seven-letter word: pretend. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deterpn. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest play is preed — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deterpn produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and need. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deterpn turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net and pee. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deterpn. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in deterpn plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deterpn and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pretend, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deterpn 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 deterpn produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.