Unscramble DETESTER and you have 116 words, DETESTER itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. DETESTER has 4 anagrams here, RESETTED, RETESTED, SETTERED and STREETED, scoring 9 like DETESTER itself. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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By length, the words from DETESTER split into 5 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 20 with 6, 30 with 5, 31 with 4, 17 with 3 and 9 with 2.
15 of 30 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DETESTER tie at 6 points; none scores more. TREES, RESET and STEER will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DETESTER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ER · all 8-letter words
DETESTER first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
DETESTER 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DETESTER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 116) | 93 | 116 | 85 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: RESETTED, SETTERED, DEERES, DREEST, REEDES, TEERED, DEERE, DERES, REEDE, STEDE, ERED, STED and 11 more, 23 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: STREETED, TERETES, TERES, EDS, TRES, EST, TES and TE, 8 in all.
These 7 words take every letter of DETESTER plus a single extra one.