Hidden inside delead sit delead and leaded, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delead and leaded tie for the highest Scrabble score from delead at 8 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in delead: one comes from rearranging its letters, and delead itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaded. For points, the strongest plays are delead and leaded — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delead. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are addle, dedal, deled, and laded, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delead produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dead, deal, deed, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are dead and deed — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delead turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, dad, lad, and led. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delead. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — 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 delead and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
delead 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.
delead is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delead unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delead and leaded, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delead 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 delead produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.