detesters needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detesters is the highest-scoring word from detesters, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in detesters — and it is detesters itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detesters. 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 detesters produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deserts, dessert, steered, and streets. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including deserts, dessert and steered.
Unscrambling detesters turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, rested and steers. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including desert, rested and tested.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detesters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress and rests. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including deers, dress and seeds.
Rearranging the letters in detesters produces 32 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 detesters turns up 17 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 detesters. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in detesters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detesters 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.
detesters 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 detesters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
detesters is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detesters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detesters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detesters 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 detesters produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.