Hidden inside delayer sit delayer, layered, and relayed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delayer, layered, and relayed tie for the highest Scrabble score from delayer at 11 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in delayer: two come from rearranging its letters, and delayer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delayer, layered, and relayed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delayer turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer and leader. For points, the strongest play is dearly — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delay, early, layer, and ready. For points, the strongest plays are deary, delay, deray, lardy, layed, leady, lyard, rayed, ready, redly, redye, and reedy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delayer produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, deer, lady, lead, and read. For points, the strongest plays are dray, dyer, eyed, lady, yald, yard, and yeld — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delayer turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye, day, dry, dye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in delayer and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
delayer is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in delayer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for delayer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
delayer is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delayer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delayer, layered, and relayed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delayer earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in delayer produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.