Hidden inside detest sit detest and tested, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detest and tested tie for the highest Scrabble score from detest at 7 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in detest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and detest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tested. For points, the strongest plays are detest and tested — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detest. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deets and steed, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detest produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seed and test. For points, the strongest plays are dees, deet, seed, teds, and teed — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detest turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and set. For points, the strongest plays are dee, eds, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detest. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in detest and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
detest 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in detest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for detest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
detest is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detest and tested, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detest 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 detest produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.