detracting needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 586 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detracting is the highest-scoring word from detracting, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 586 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detracting — and it is detracting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detracting turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is redacting, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detracting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catering, creating, reacting, and treating. For points, the strongest plays are argentic, catering, citrated, creating, dicentra, nictated, reacting, tetracid, and tetradic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detracting produces 56 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, cigaret, granted, reading, tearing, trading, and trained. For points, the strongest plays are carding, cringed, and incaged — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detracting turns up 111 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, attend, caring, credit, dancer, danger, and daring. For points, the strongest plays are cadger, ceding, and graced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detracting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, agent, aired, anger, attic, cared, and cater. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detracting produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aged, cage, card, care, cart, and cent. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cage, caid, card, cedi, crag, cred, dace, dice, and iced — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detracting turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, aid, air, and, ant, and are. For points, the strongest plays are cad and cig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detracting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, and id — 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 detracting plus one additional letter.
detracting 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.
detracting is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detracting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detracting, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detracting 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 detracting produce 586 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 56 seven-letter words, 111 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.