deterring 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, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deterring is the highest-scoring word from deterring, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in deterring — and it is deterring itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deterring. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is deringer, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deterring produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retired. For points, the strongest plays are dreeing, energid, grinder, reeding, regrind, and reigned — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deterring turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire, gender, regret, rented, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are dinger, edgier, engird, gender, girder, girned, girted, nidget, reding, ringed, and tinged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deterring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, drier, enter, green, greet, grind, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dirge, edger, greed, gride, grind, and ridge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deterring produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet, dine, dirt, edge, edit, and gene. For points, the strongest plays are ding, dreg, edge, geed, gied, gird, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deterring turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, get, net, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deterring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in deterring plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deterring 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.
deterring 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.
deterring is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deterring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deterring, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deterring 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 deterring produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.