Jumble solved
Is DETRACTIONS a word? Yes.
DETRACTIONS is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 11 letters, worth 14 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 1845 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 1845
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 11 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 4 : 7
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 7 remaining consonants (D, T, R, C, T, N, S).
Anagrams of DETRACTIONS
One word uses all 11 letters:
- detractions
11-letter words
1 word found10-letter words
6 words found9-letter words
34 words found+ 19 more 9-letter words
8-letter words
117 words found- acridest11
- actioned11
- carotids11
- cartoned11
- catenoid11
- centroid11
- ceratoid11
- citrated11
- coattend11
- codeinas11
- consider11
- cordites11
- danciest11
- detracts11
- dicentra11
+ 102 more 8-letter words
7-letter words
258 words found- acnodes10
- acorned10
- cairned10
- candies10
- candors10
- cardios10
- cardons10
- carotid10
- cestoid10
- cinders10
- coadies10
- coasted10
- codeias10
- codeina10
- codeins10
+ 243 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
414 words found+ 399 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
485 words found+ 470 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
351 words found+ 336 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
144 words found+ 129 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
35 words found+ 20 more 2-letter words
Words hidden inside DETRACTIONS
Without moving a single letter, reading detractions straight through uncovers 11 shorter words — detraction, tractions, traction, actions, detract, action, and more. The longest unbroken run is detraction.
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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
11
Distinct
10
Vowels
36%
E, A, I, O
Consonants
64%
D, T, R, C, T, N, S
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Solving DETRACTIONS: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters detractions?
Rearranging the 11 letters in detractions produces 1845 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 11-letter answer detractions here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does detractions have any anagrams?
Using all 11 letters, detractions rearranges into exactly one word: detractions.
What is the longest word you can make from detractions?
The longest solution is detractions at 11 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from detractions?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: detractions yields ace, act, ado, ads, aid, ain, air, ais, ait and and. 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 detractions scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, detractions is the top scorer from detractions at 14 points, followed by anecdotist (13), contrasted (13) and detraction (13). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside detractions?
Read left to right without moving any letters and detractions already contains 11 shorter words: detraction, tractions, traction, actions, detract and action (plus 5 more). The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is detraction. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.