detested needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detested is the highest-scoring word from detested, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in detested — and it is detested itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detested turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tested. For points, the strongest plays are deseed and seeded — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detested. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: deeds, 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 detested produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, seed, and test. For points, the strongest play is deed — 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 detested 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 detested. 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 detested and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
detested 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 detested carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for detested. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
detested is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detested unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detested, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detested 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 detested produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.