detriments 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, 597 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detriments is the highest-scoring word from detriments, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 597 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in detriments — and it is detriments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detriments 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 detriment, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detriments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interest and resident. For points, the strongest plays are dementis, demerits, deminers, demister, dimeters, mittened, reminted, remitted, and sediment — 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 detriments produces 63 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dentist, entries, and reminds. For points, the strongest plays are dementi, dements, demerit, deminer, dimeter, emitted, ermined, menders, merited, minders, mindset, mistend, mitered, remends, reminds, remised, retimed, and sidemen — 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 detriments turns up 131 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert, desire, diners, driest, enters, and entire. For points, the strongest plays are dement, demies, demise, demist, demits, denims, dermis, dimers, emends, itemed, mender, mensed, merdes, metred, minder, minted, misted, mitred, remend, remind, and termed — 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 159 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detriments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets, dimes, diner, dines, dries, and edits. For points, the strongest plays are deems, deism, demes, demit, denim, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, emend, meeds, mends, merde, meted, midst, minds, mined, mired, rimed, and timed — 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 detriments produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mind, mine, mint, need, nerd, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are meds, meed, mend, mids, mind, deem, deme, derm, dime, dims, and idem — 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 detriments turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, its, men, met, and net. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detriments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 detriments plus one additional letter.
detriments 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 one sense for detriments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
detriments is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detriments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detriments, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detriments 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 detriments produce 597 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 27 eight-letter words, 63 seven-letter words, 131 six-letter words, 159 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.