Hidden inside delator sit delator and leotard, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delator and leotard tie for the highest Scrabble score from delator at 8 points. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in delator: one comes from rearranging its letters, and delator 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 delator and leotard, 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 delator turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dartle, loader, orated, ordeal, reload, and retold, 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, alert, alter, dealt, later, older, and trade. For points, the strongest plays are adore, alder, dater, dealt, delta, derat, dotal, doter, lader, lated, oared, older, oread, rated, tardo, tared, toled, trade, tread, and trode — 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 delator produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, deal, dear, late, lead, and load. For points, the strongest plays are dale, dare, dart, date, dato, deal, dear, delt, doat, doer, dole, dolt, dore, dote, drat, lade, lard, lead, load, lode, lord, odea, olde, orad, read, redo, road, rode, toad, toed, told, trad, and trod — 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 delator turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, dot, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ado, dal, del, doe, dol, dor, dot, eld, lad, led, oda, ode, old, rad, red, rod, tad, ted, and tod — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 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 delator 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.
delator 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
delator is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delator and leotard, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delator 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 delator produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.