delaying needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delaying is the highest-scoring word from delaying, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in delaying — and it is delaying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in delaying produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing and leading. For points, the strongest play is yealing — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delaying turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denial, dyeing and gained. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including dyeing, agedly and dangly.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delaying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel and angle. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dying, glady, and ledgy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in delaying produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, deal and deli. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delaying turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and and. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including day, dye and gay.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delaying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in delaying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in delaying 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.
delaying 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.
delaying is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delaying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delaying, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delaying 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 delaying produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.