detonating needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 341 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detonating is the highest-scoring word from detonating, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 341 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detonating — and it is detonating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detonating turns up 4 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: attending, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detonating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donating. For points, the strongest plays are denoting and donating — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detonating produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tending. For points, the strongest plays are deaning, denting, doating, dotting, godetia, ingoted, tangoed, tending, and togated — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detonating turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, dating, donate, eating, ending, gained, and gotten. For points, the strongest plays are dating, dotage, doting, ending, gained, gaited, ganoid, ginned, gitted, nidget, tanged, tinged, togaed, and tonged — 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detonating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, doing, giant, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dingo, dogie, doing, donga, gated, geoid, godet, and gonad — each 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 detonating produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, date, diet, dine, done, edit, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, ding, doge, dong, egad, gadi, gaed, gied, and goad — each 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 detonating turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, aid, and, ant, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, dog, gad, ged, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detonating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, do, ed, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in detonating plus one additional letter.
detonating 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.
detonating is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detonating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detonating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detonating 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 detonating produce 341 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.