Unscramble DECTETS to get 50 words. DECTETS itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. DECTETS has 1 anagram here, DETECTS, scoring 10 like DECTETS itself. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. DECTETS as a single 7-tile play makes 60 in Scrabble, 10 plus the 50 bonus, and 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from DECTETS by length: 2 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 7 with 5, 17 with 4, 13 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of DECTETS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with DE · ending in TS · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with DETECTS (10 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: DECTETS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DECTETS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 50) | 40 | 50 | 34 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 10 of them: DECTETS, DECTET, STEDE, STED, TESTE, TETES, SED, TETE, EE and ST. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: TECS, TEC, EDS, EST, TES and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of DECTETS and one more.