delegating needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 435 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delegating is the highest-scoring word from delegating, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 435 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in delegating — and it is delegating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deleting. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including deleting, danegelt and delating.
Rearranging the letters in delegating produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing, elegant, engaged, and leading. For points, the strongest plays are engaged, gangled, gelding, and niggled — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delegating turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dating, denial and dental. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including nagged, daggle and degage.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging and alien. For points, the strongest plays are egged, gaged, and igged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in delegating produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, date and deal. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including aged, edge and gang.
Unscrambling delegating turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and and. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including dig, egg and gag.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
delegating 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for delegating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
delegating is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delegating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delegating, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delegating 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 delegating produce 435 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 13 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.