Hidden inside detester sit detester, retested, and streeted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detester, retested, and streeted tie for the highest Scrabble score from detester at 9 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in detester: two come from rearranging its letters, and detester itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detester, retested, and streeted, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detester produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steered. For points, the strongest plays are reested and steered — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detester turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, rested, street, and tested. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including desert, rested and tested.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detester. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, steer, and trees. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including deers, deets and deter.
Rearranging the letters in detester produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, rest and seed. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including deer, seed and dees.
Unscrambling detester turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are dee, eds, red, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detester. 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.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in detester plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detester 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.
detester 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 detester carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
detester is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detester unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detester, retested, and streeted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detester 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 detester produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.