delegacy needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delegacy is the highest-scoring word from delegacy, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in delegacy — and it is delegacy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delegacy produces exactly one seven-letter word: glaceed. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delegacy 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 clayed and legacy, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delay. For points, the strongest play is cadgy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delegacy produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, cage, clay, deal, edge, glad, and lady. For points, the strongest play is cagy — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delegacy turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aye, day, dye, eye, gal, and gay. For points, the strongest play is cay — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 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 delegacy 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.
delegacy 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for delegacy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
delegacy is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delegacy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delegacy, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delegacy 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 delegacy produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.