The letters in DETECTED make 16 words of two letters or more. The longest is DETECTED at 8 letters, and the highest-scoring is DETECTED at 12 points.
No other single word uses all 8 letters of DETECTED. DETECTED has 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants, worth 12 points before any board bonuses.
8-letter words 1
6-letter words 1
5-letter words 1
ceded9
4-letter words 5
cede7cete6deed6deet5teed5
3-letter words 5
cee5dee4ted4tee3tet3
2-letter words 3
de3ed3et2
Words are from our open word list and include some game-only words. Rude words are left out of this page; the unscrambler shows every valid word, lets you add blank tiles and filter by length.