Hidden inside datelines sit datelines and dentalise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 601 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
datelines and dentalise tie for the highest Scrabble score from datelines at 10 points. The top 10 of 601 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in datelines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and datelines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are datelines and dentalise, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in datelines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listened. For points, the strongest plays are andesite, dateline, delaines, enlisted, entailed, leadiest, lineated, listened, and tinseled — 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 datelines produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denials, details, and instead. For points, the strongest plays are aediles, aliened, aniseed, delaine, delates, denials, dentals, dentils, destain, destine, details, detains, dilates, endites, enisled, ensiled, ideates, instead, isleted, latened, leadens, lenited, linseed, nestled, nidates, sainted, satined, slanted, snailed, stained, and standee — 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 datelines turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, denial, denies, dental, detail, island, and ladies. For points, the strongest plays are aedile, aedine, aisled, alined, aneled, anteed, deasil, delate, delist, deltas, denial, denies, dental, dentil, desalt, detail, detain, dienes, diesel, dilate, distal, ediles, elands, elated, eldest, elides, endite, ideals, ideate, idents, idlest, island, ladens, ladies, lasted, leaden, leaned, leased, lensed, linted, listed, nailed, naleds, nested, nidate, sailed, sained, salted, sealed, seated, sedate, sedile, seidel, seined, sendal, silted, slated, staled, staned, tailed, teased, teinds, tensed, and tildes — 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 160 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in datelines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, aside, dates, deals, dealt, and delis. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aedes, aides, ailed, anted, aside, dales, dates, deals, dealt, deans, deets, deils, deist, deles, delis, delta, delts, denes, dense, dents, dials, diene, diets, dines, dints, ditas, dites, eased, edile, edits, eland, elide, ideal, ideas, ident, idles, isled, laden, lades, lands, lased, lated, leads, ledes, lends, lined, naled, needs, nidal, nides, saned, sated, sedan, sidle, sited, slide, snide, stade, staid, stand, stead, steed, stied, tased, teind, tends, tidal, tides, tilde, tiled, tined, tsade, and tsadi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in datelines produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, lads, laid, land, lane, and last. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, ands, lade, lads, laid, land, lead, lede, lend, lids, lied, need, nide, sade, sadi, said, sand, seed, send, side, sild, sled, slid, sned, dais, dale, dals, dans, date, deal, dean, dees, deet, deil, dele, deli, dels, delt, dene, deni, dens, dent, desi, dial, diel, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dita, dite, dits, edit, eide, elds, ends, idea, ides, idle, tads, teds, teed, tend, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling datelines turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ate, die, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, and, dal, dan, das, dee, del, den, die, din, dis, dit, eds, eld, end, ids, lad, led, lid, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in datelines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in datelines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in datelines and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
datelines 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for datelines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
datelines is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing datelines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are datelines and dentalise, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from datelines 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 datelines produce 601 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 160 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.