detraction needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 731 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detraction is the highest-scoring word from detraction, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 731 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detraction — and it is detraction itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detraction 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 redaction, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detraction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction. For points, 15 words tie at 11 points, including actioned, cartoned and catenoid.
Rearranging the letters in detraction produces 57 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, noticed, and trained. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including noticed, acorned and cairned.
Unscrambling detraction turns up 142 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, attend and carton. For points, 38 words tie at 9 points, including coined, credit and dancer.
There are 188 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detraction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor and adore. For points, 34 words tie at 8 points, including acted, cared and cried.
Rearranging the letters in detraction produces 180 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card and care. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including acid, card and code.
Unscrambling detraction turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detraction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in detraction plus one additional letter.
detraction 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for detraction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
detraction is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detraction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detraction, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detraction 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 detraction produce 731 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 35 eight-letter words, 57 seven-letter words, 142 six-letter words, 188 five-letter words, 180 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.