Unscramble DETENTION and you have 175 words, DETENTION itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
D2E1T1E1N12T1I1O1N12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from DETENTION by length: 1 with 9 letters, 9 with 7, 27 with 6, 24 with 5, 55 with 4, 39 with 3 and 20 with 2. None has 8 letters.
21 of 27 6-letter words made with DETENTION letters tie at 7 points; none scores more. INTENT, INTEND and DENOTE will look familiar.
Of the 24 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DETENTION, 15 score 6 points, the group's best. NOTED, DITTO and TONED are the ones most people know.
29 of 55 4-letter words from DETENTION tie at 5 points; none scores more. NEED, TEEN and NOTE will look familiar.
Trade one tile of DETENTION for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ON · all 9-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; DENTINE, DINETTE, ENDNOTE, INTONED and TENONED (8 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DETENTION works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DETENTION itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 175) | 132 | 175 | 122 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 43 of them: NOINTED, DENNET, DITONE, EIDENT, INTOED, NONETTE, NONETTI, OINTED, ONDINE, DENET, NETTIE, ONNED and 31 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: IDENT, NIENTE, DENI, DINO, TENNE, TENNO, NONI, TEIN, OI and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of DETENTION spell the words below.