detractor needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 265 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detractor is the highest-scoring word from detractor, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 265 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in detractor — and it is detractor itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detractor. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is redactor, 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 detractor produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creator and tractor. For points, the strongest plays are cordate, corrade, detract, and redcoat — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detractor turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carrot, record, and retard. For points, the strongest plays are carder, carted, catted, coated, corder, crated, record, redact, and traced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 70 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detractor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor, adore, cared, cater, order, and raced. For points, the strongest plays are acred, acted, arced, cadet, cadre, cared, cedar, coder, cored, coted, credo, decor, octad, and raced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detractor produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, cart, coat, code, cord, and core. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, card, coda, code, coed, cord, cred, dace, and deco — 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 detractor turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detractor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in detractor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detractor 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.
detractor 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for detractor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
detractor is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detractor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detractor, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detractor 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 detractor produce 265 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 70 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.