delegacies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 344 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delegacies is the highest-scoring word from delegacies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 344 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in delegacies — and it is delegacies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegacies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elegiacs and legacies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in delegacies produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is glaceed, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delegacies turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceased, ladies and sailed. For points, the strongest plays are cadges and glaced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegacies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aisle and aside. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in delegacies produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aged and ages. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including acid, cage and dice.
Unscrambling delegacies turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and aid. For points, the strongest plays are cad and cig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegacies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
delegacies 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 3-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 delegacies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
delegacies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delegacies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delegacies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delegacies 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 delegacies produce 344 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.