173 words come out when you unscramble DETAINED, starting with DETAINED itself: 10 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
Looking for dedinate, addeeint, dietedan, atendedi, neatedid, aidedten, dinedeat or eddetain? They use the same letters as DETAINED, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DETAINED split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 23 with 6, 27 with 5, 51 with 4, 46 with 3 and 21 with 2.
Among 23 6-letter words made with DETAINED letters, the top score is 8, reached by 15. INDEED, EDITED and DENIED are the familiar ones.
Of the 51 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DETAINED, 4 score 6 points, the group's best. DATE, NEED and TEEN are the ones most people know.
ADD, DAD and DID are the top 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DETAINED, 5 points each. END, NET and AID will look familiar.
These 6 words have the length of DETAINED, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ED · all 8-letter words
What DETAINED means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DETAINED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DETAINED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 173) | 122 | 173 | 113 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
51 of the 173 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TEINDED, DAINED, DANTED, IDEAED, TADDIE, TEDDIE, TINDED, DITED, EIDENT, DAINE, DAINT, DEID and 39 more. 9 of the 173 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NIDATED, NIDATE, IDENT, DENI, DAN, TEIN, TIAN, DA and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of DETAINED spell the words below.