delegator 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, 392 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delegator is the highest-scoring word from delegator, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 392 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in delegator — and it is delegator itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delegator produces exactly one eight-letter word: derogate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in delegator produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered and related. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including garoted, gelated and gloated.
Unscrambling delegator turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, dealer, leader, and relate. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including agreed, argled and dogear.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, agree and alert. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including grade, edger and galed.
Rearranging the letters in delegator produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and date. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including aged, drag and edge.
Unscrambling delegator turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and are. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dog, god and dag.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and do. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in delegator plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in delegator 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.
delegator 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.
delegator is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delegator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delegator, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delegator 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 delegator produce 392 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 16 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.