Hidden inside dettain is one standout: tainted, a seven-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DETTAIN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TAINTED (verb, form of taint), to touch or affect slightly with something bad, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
tainted is the highest-scoring word from dettain, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dettain produces exactly one seven-letter word: tainted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dettain. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anted, atted, ident and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dettain produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet and dine. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including date, diet and dine.
Unscrambling dettain turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and ant. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including aid, and and die.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dettain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in dettain plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dettain and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tainted, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dettain 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 dettain produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.