Hidden inside detonable sit denotable and detonable, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 319 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denotable and detonable tie for the highest Scrabble score from detonable at 12 points. The top 10 of 319 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in detonable: one comes from rearranging its letters, and detonable itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denotable and detonable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detonable produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are belated, bleated, bloated and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detonable turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beaten, blonde and debate. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including blonde, debate and albedo.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detonable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, blade and bleed. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including blade, bleed and blend.
Rearranging the letters in detonable produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade and bald. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including bade, bald and band.
Unscrambling detonable turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bod.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detonable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in detonable 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.
detonable 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
detonable is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detonable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denotable and detonable, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detonable 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 detonable produce 319 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.