detainments needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 726 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detainments is the highest-scoring word from detainments, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 726 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in detainments — and it is detainments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detainments produces exactly one ten-letter word: detainment. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling detainments turns up 9 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are admittees, amnestied, dementias, estimated, and meditates, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainments. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are admittee, dementia, dementis, mediants, mediates, meditate, mittened, sediment, sidemeat, and stamened, 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 detainments produces 87 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attends, dentist, distant, instead, intends, intense, and maidens. For points, the strongest plays are damnest, demeans, dementi, dements, diastem, emitted, maidens, mantids, medians, mediant, mediate, medinas, mindset, misdate, mistend, sandmen, seedman, sideman, sidemen, steamed, and tandems — 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 detainments turns up 137 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, attend, denies, estate, insane, intend, and maiden. For points, the strongest plays are adeems, admins, admits, aidmen, amends, amides, amidst, daimen, demast, demean, dement, demies, demise, demist, demits, denims, desman, edemas, emends, itemed, maiden, manned, mantid, masted, matted, meated, mediae, median, medias, medina, menads, mensed, minted, misted, seamed, tandem, and teamed — 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 175 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aside, damns, dates, diets, and dimes. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admen, admin, admit, aimed, amend, amide, amids, dames, damns, deems, deism, demes, demit, denim, dimes, disme, edema, emend, maids, maned, mated, meads, media, meeds, menad, mends, meted, midst, minds, mined, named, tamed, 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 detainments produces 172 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, amen, ants, made, maid, and main. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, meed, mend, mids, mind, dame, damn, dams, deem, deme, 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 detainments turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, and, ant, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detainments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, at, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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.
3 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in detainments plus one additional letter.
detainments 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 3-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 detainments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
detainments is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detainments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is detainments, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from detainments 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 detainments produce 726 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 9 nine-letter words, 34 eight-letter words, 87 seven-letter words, 137 six-letter words, 175 five-letter words, 172 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.