Unscramble DETECTOR to get 129 words. DETECTOR itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. DETECTOR has 1 anagram here, COTTERED, scoring 11 like DETECTOR itself. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
CODERTET unscrambles to DETECTOR: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for cordette, erodettc, cdeeortt, decettor, decorett, coretted, deercott, doterect, doctrete or rodttece? They use the same letters as DETECTOR, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from DETECTOR by length: 2 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 11 with 6, 24 with 5, 44 with 4, 34 with 3 and 12 with 2.
7 of 44 4-letter words from DETECTOR tie at 7 points; none scores more. CODE, TREE and CORE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DETECTOR but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in OR · all 8-letter words
What DETECTOR means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. DETECTOR is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DETECTOR itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 129) | 110 | 129 | 105 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
19 of the 129 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COTTED, DECTET, OTTERED, DETORT, ECOD, COTT, CREE, DOREE, ROTED, DERO, DORT, ERED and 7 more. 5 of the 129 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CRED, CERT, ECO, TEC and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of DETECTOR and one more.