Hidden inside determinants sit determinants and detrainments, twelve-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1638 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
determinants and detrainments tie for the highest Scrabble score from determinants at 15 points. The top 10 of 1638 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 twelve-letter words hiding in determinants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and determinants itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these twelve-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are determinants and detrainments, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determinants. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detainments, determinant, and detrainment, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in determinants produces 14 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entertains. For points, the strongest plays are detainment, detriments, mistreated, netminders, and terminated — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling determinants turns up 43 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entertain. For points, the strongest plays are admittees, admitters, amnestied, dementias, detriment, diameters, diatremes, dreamiest, estimated, meditates, minareted, netminder, smartened, smattered, and tradesmen — 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 138 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determinants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intenser, interest, internet, mastered, mattered, readiest, and remained. For points, the strongest plays are admittee, admitter, amenders, dementia, dementis, demerits, deminers, demister, destream, diameter, diatreme, dimeters, mannered, mastered, mattered, meanders, mediants, mediates, meditate, misrated, mittened, readmits, remained, remanned, reminted, remitted, sediment, sidemeat, stamened, and streamed — 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 determinants produces 262 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires, attends, dearest, dentist, dinners, distant, and eastern. For points, the strongest plays are admires, amender, damners, damnest, demeans, dementi, dements, demerit, deminer, diastem, dimeter, emitted, ermined, inarmed, maidens, mantids, meander, medians, mediant, mediate, medinas, menders, merited, minders, mindset, misdate, misread, mistend, mitered, readmit, reedman, remands, remated, remends, reminds, remised, renamed, retimed, sandmen, sedarim, seedman, sidearm, sideman, sidemen, smarted, smeared, 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 determinants turns up 379 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert, desire, diners, dinner, drains, and dreams. For points, the strongest plays are daimen, damner, demast, demean, dement, demies, demise, demist, demits, denims, dermas, dermis, desman, dimers, dirams, disarm, dreams, dreamt, edemas, emends, tandem, teamed, termed, adeems, admins, admire, admits, aidmen, amends, amides, amidst, itemed, madres, maiden, manned, mantid, marted, masted, matted, meated, mediae, median, medias, medina, menads, mender, mensed, merdes, metred, minder, minted, misted, mitred, reamed, remade, remand, remend, remind, and seamed — 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 376 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determinants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aired, armed, aside, ideas, and inner. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admen, admin, admit, aimed, amend, amide, amids, armed, madre, maids, maned, mated, meads, media, meeds, menad, mends, merde, meted, midst, minds, mined, mired, named, rimed, tamed, dames, damns, deems, deism, demes, demit, denim, derma, derms, dimer, dimes, diram, disme, drams, dream, edema, emend, 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 determinants produces 275 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, airs, amen, ants, arms, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, meed, mend, mids, mind, dame, damn, dams, deem, deme, derm, dime, dims, dram, 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 determinants turns up 116 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, air, and, ant, and are. 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in determinants. 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.
determinants 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 four senses for determinants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
determinants is one of two twelve-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing determinants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are determinants and detrainments, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from determinants 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 determinants produce 1638 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 twelve-letter words, 3 eleven-letter words, 14 ten-letter words, 43 nine-letter words, 138 eight-letter words, 262 seven-letter words, 379 six-letter words, 376 five-letter words, 275 four-letter words, 116 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.