Hidden inside dentaries sit dentaries, detainers, and resinated, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 724 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dentaries, detainers, and resinated tie for the highest Scrabble score from dentaries at 10 points. The top 10 of 724 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in dentaries: two come from rearranging its letters, and dentaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dentaries, detainers, and resinated, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dentaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with readiest, resident, and steadier. For points, the strongest plays are andesite, arsenide, detainer, detrains, inserted, nearside, nerdiest, randiest, readiest, resident, retained, seriated, sintered, steadier, strained, and trendies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dentaries produces 68 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern, entries, instead, nastier, nearest, and trained. For points, the strongest plays are aniseed, antired, aridest, astride, darnest, dearest, dearies, deniers, derates, destain, destine, detains, detrain, diaster, diester, dieters, disrate, endears, endites, ideates, instead, nereids, nidates, randies, readies, redates, reedits, resined, resited, sainted, sandier, sardine, satined, sedater, staider, stained, standee, stander, sterned, tardies, tasered, tenders, tinders, tirades, and trained — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dentaries turns up 152 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert, desire, diners, drains, driest, and earned. For points, the strongest plays are aedine, aeried, aiders, airted, anteed, ardent, daters, deairs, dearie, denari, denars, denier, denies, denser, derate, derats, desert, desire, detain, deters, dienes, dieter, dinars, diners, direst, drains, driest, earned, eiders, endear, enders, endite, erased, ideate, idents, irades, nadirs, neared, nereid, nested, nidate, rained, raised, ranids, ranted, redans, redate, rediae, redias, reedit, reined, rented, resaid, reseda, resend, reside, rested, retied, rident, rinsed, sained, sander, seared, seated, sedate, seined, sender, snared, snider, staned, stared, strand, stride, teared, teased, teinds, tender, tensed, tiered, tinder, tirade, trades, treads, trends, triads, and trined — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 205 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dentaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, dares, dates, dears, deers, and diets. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aedes, aider, aides, aired, anted, aside, dares, darns, darts, dater, dates, deair, deans, dears, deers, deets, deist, denar, denes, dense, dents, derat, deter, diene, diets, dinar, diner, dines, dints, dirts, ditas, dites, drain, drats, drees, drest, dries, eared, eased, edits, eider, ender, ideas, ident, irade, nadir, nards, needs, nerds, nides, raids, rands, ranid, rased, rated, reads, redan, redes, redia, reeds, rends, resid, rides, rinds, saned, sated, sedan, seder, sered, sired, sited, snide, stade, staid, stand, stead, steed, stied, tared, tased, teind, tends, tides, tined, tired, trade, trads, tread, treed, trend, triad, tried, tsade, and tsadi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dentaries produces 168 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, ants, arts, near, neat, and need. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, ands, arid, nard, need, nerd, nide, rads, raid, rand, read, rede, reds, reed, rend, ride, rids, rind, sade, sadi, said, sand, sard, seed, send, side, sned, dais, dans, dare, darn, dart, date, dean, dear, deer, dees, deet, dene, deni, dens, dent, dere, desi, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dire, dirt, dita, dite, dits, drat, dree, edit, eide, ends, idea, ides, ired, tads, teds, teed, tend, tide, tied, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dentaries turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, ant, are, and art. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, and, dan, das, dee, den, die, din, dis, dit, eds, end, ids, rad, red, rid, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dentaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
14 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in dentaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dentaries 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.
dentaries is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
dentaries is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dentaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dentaries, detainers, and resinated, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dentaries 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 dentaries produce 724 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 68 seven-letter words, 152 six-letter words, 205 five-letter words, 168 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.