delegates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 292 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delegates is the highest-scoring word from delegates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 292 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in delegates — and it is delegates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is delegate, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delegates produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deletes. For points, the strongest plays are egested, gelated, gleeted, and legated — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delegates turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delete, lasted, sealed, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are eagled, gasted, glades, gledes, gleeds, ledges, sledge, and staged — 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 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, deals, dealt, eased, edges, gates, and geese. For points, the strongest plays are degas, edges, egads, galed, gated, gelds, glade, glads, glede, gleds, gleed, ledge, and sedge — 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 delegates produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, date, deal, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, edge, egad, gads, gaed, geds, geed, geld, glad, and gled — 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 delegates turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, ate, eat, gal, gas, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in delegates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in delegates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
delegates 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 delegates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
delegates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delegates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delegates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delegates 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 delegates produce 292 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.