Unscramble DETENTES and you have 121 words, DETENTES itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 9 points: NEDETTES. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 8 points, DETENTE, DETENTS and NEDETTE among them. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for tendeste? They use the same letters as DETENTES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
D2E1T1E1N12T1E1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DETENTES split into 2 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 18 with 6, 28 with 5, 39 with 4, 20 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Among 39 4-letter words in DETENTES, the top score is 5, reached by 16. NEED, SEND and TEEN are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DETENTES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What DETENTES means, then the 6 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. DETENTES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DETENTES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 121) | 78 | 121 | 72 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NEDETTES, NEDETTE, STEENED, STENTED, DENETS, NEESED, SEDENT, SENTED, TEENDS, TEENED, DEENS, DENET and 31 more, 43 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: STENT, EDS, ESNE, EST, TES and TE, 6 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of DETENTES spell the words below.