detractors 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, 668 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detractors is the highest-scoring word from detractors, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 668 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detractors — and it is detractors itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detractors turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are costarred, detractor, and redactors, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detractors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creators and tractors. For points, the strongest plays are corrades, detracts, redactor, and redcoats — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detractors produces 54 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carrots, coaster and creator. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including records, carders and coasted.
Unscrambling detractors turns up 135 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, adores and arrest. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including costed, record and sacred.
There are 186 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detractors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cards, cared and cares. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including cards, cared and codes.
Rearranging the letters in detractors produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts and card. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including card, code and cord.
Unscrambling detractors turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and are. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detractors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in detractors plus one additional letter.
detractors 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 detractors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
detractors is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detractors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detractors, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detractors 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 detractors produce 668 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 54 seven-letter words, 135 six-letter words, 186 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.