detestable needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 352 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detestable is the highest-scoring word from detestable, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 352 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detestable — and it is detestable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detestable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tableted, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detestable produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baldest, battles and blasted. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including baldest, blasted and debates.
Unscrambling detestable turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, battle and blades. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including blades, bleeds and debate.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detestable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, beast and beats. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including based, blade and bleed.
Rearranging the letters in detestable produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade and bald. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including bade, bald and beds.
Unscrambling detestable turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detestable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
detestable 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 two senses for detestable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
detestable is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detestable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detestable, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detestable 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 detestable produce 352 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.