Jumble solved
Is DETERGENT a word? Yes.
DETERGENT is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 9 letters, worth 11 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 108 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 108
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 9 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 3 : 6
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 3 vowels (E, E, E) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 6 remaining consonants (D, T, R, G, N, T).
Anagrams of DETERGENT
One word uses all 9 letters:
- detergent
9-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
2 words found- gettered10
7-letter words
7 words found6-letter words
21 words found+ 6 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
17 words found+ 2 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
29 words found+ 14 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
23 words found+ 8 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
8 words foundWords hidden inside DETERGENT
Without moving a single letter, reading detergent straight through uncovers 5 shorter words — deterge, deter, gent, erg, gen. The longest unbroken run is deterge.
Related jumbles to try
Shorter words inside DETERGENT — solve each on its own:
Add one letter to DETERGENT
Slot in one more tile — any letter — and detergent opens up 1 10-letter word. Handy when a puzzle gives you a blank or an extra square.
Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
9
Distinct
6
Vowels
33%
E, E, E
Consonants
67%
D, T, R, G, N, T
Browse more word lists
Explore every word of a given length — each links to its anagrams and solution.
Practise your unscrambling
Unscrambling gets faster with reps — these two are built for that.
Solving DETERGENT: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters detergent?
Rearranging the 9 letters in detergent produces 108 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 9-letter answer detergent here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does detergent have any anagrams?
Using all 9 letters, detergent rearranges into exactly one word: detergent.
What is the longest word you can make from detergent?
The longest solution is detergent at 9 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from detergent?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: detergent yields dee, den, end, eng, ere, erg, ern, ged, gee and gen. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from detergent scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, detergent is the top scorer from detergent at 11 points, followed by gettered (10), tentered (9) and deterge (9). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside detergent?
Read left to right without moving any letters and detergent already contains 5 shorter words: deterge, deter, gent, erg and gen. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is deterge. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.