Hidden inside delators sit delators, leotards, and lodestar, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delators, leotards, and lodestar tie for the highest Scrabble score from delators at 9 points. The top 10 of 462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in delators: two come from rearranging its letters, and delators itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delators, leotards, and lodestar, 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 delators produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dartles, delator, leotard, loaders, oldster, ordeals, reloads, roasted, solated, and torsade, 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 delators turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, alerts, alters, lasted, oldest, sorted, and stared. For points, the strongest plays are adores, alders, aldose, dartle, daters, deltas, derats, desalt, dorsal, dorsel, doters, laders, lasted, loader, oldest, orated, ordeal, oreads, reload, resold, retold, salted, sarode, slated, soared, solder, sorted, staled, stared, stoled, stored, strode, trades, and treads — 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 127 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, alert, alter, dares, dates, deals, and dealt. For points, the strongest plays are adore, alder, dales, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, deals, dealt, dears, delta, delts, derat, doats, doers, doest, doles, dolts, dores, dorsa, doser, dotal, doter, dotes, drats, drest, lader, lades, lards, lased, lated, leads, loads, lodes, lords, oared, older, oread, rased, rated, reads, redos, resod, roads, rodes, rosed, sarod, sated, soled, sored, stade, stead, tardo, tared, tased, toads, toled, trade, trads, tread, trode, and tsade — 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 delators produces 159 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts, lads, last, late, lead, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are ados, lade, lads, lard, lead, load, lode, lord, odas, odea, odes, olde, olds, orad, rads, read, redo, reds, road, rode, rods, sade, sard, sled, soda, sold, sord, dale, dals, dare, dart, date, dato, deal, dear, dels, delt, doat, doer, does, dole, dols, dolt, dore, dors, dosa, dose, dost, dote, dots, drat, elds, tads, teds, toad, tods, 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 delators turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, dot, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, dal, das, del, doe, dol, dor, dos, dot, eds, eld, lad, led, oda, ode, ods, old, rad, red, rod, sad, sod, 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, or, so, 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 delators and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
delators 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.
delators is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delators unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delators, leotards, and lodestar, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delators 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 delators produce 462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 127 five-letter words, 159 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.