Jumble solved
Is DETRACTION a word? Yes.
DETRACTION is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 10 letters, worth 13 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 730 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 730
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 10 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 4 : 6
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 4 vowels (E, A, I, O) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 6 remaining consonants (D, T, R, C, T, N).
Anagrams of DETRACTION
One word uses all 10 letters:
- detraction
10-letter words
1 word found9-letter words
2 words found8-letter words
35 words found- actioned11
- cartoned11
- catenoid11
- centroid11
- ceratoid11
- citrated11
- coattend11
- dicentra11
- dictator11
- doctrine11
- nictated11
- notecard11
- tetracid11
- tetradic11
- tornadic11
+ 20 more 8-letter words
7-letter words
57 words found- acorned10
- cairned10
- carotid10
- codeina10
- cordate10
- cordite10
- ctenoid10
- dancier10
- deontic10
- detract10
- dictate10
- noticed10
- redcoat10
- tacnode10
- tincted10
+ 42 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
141 words found+ 126 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
188 words found+ 173 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
180 words found+ 165 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
97 words found+ 82 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
29 words found+ 14 more 2-letter words
Words hidden inside DETRACTION
Without moving a single letter, reading detraction straight through uncovers 6 shorter words — traction, detract, action, tract, act, ion. The longest unbroken run is traction.
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Shorter words inside DETRACTION — solve each on its own:
Add one letter to DETRACTION
Slot in one more tile — any letter — and detraction opens up 1 11-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
10
Distinct
9
Vowels
40%
E, A, I, O
Consonants
60%
D, T, R, C, T, N
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Solving DETRACTION: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters detraction?
Rearranging the 10 letters in detraction produces 730 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 10-letter answer detraction here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does detraction have any anagrams?
Using all 10 letters, detraction rearranges into exactly one word: detraction.
What is the longest word you can make from detraction?
The longest solution is detraction at 10 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from detraction?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: detraction yields ace, act, ado, aid, ain, air, ait, and, ane and ani. 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 detraction scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, detraction is the top scorer from detraction at 13 points, followed by redaction (12), carnotite (11) and actioned (11). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside detraction?
Read left to right without moving any letters and detraction already contains 6 shorter words: traction, detract, action, tract, act and ion. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is traction. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.