Hidden inside deletes sit deletes, sleeted, and steeled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deletes, sleeted, and steeled tie for the highest Scrabble score from deletes at 8 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in deletes: two come from rearranging its letters, and deletes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deletes. For points, the strongest plays are deletes, sleeted, and steeled — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deletes turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delete. For points, the strongest plays are delete, eldest, and seeled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deletes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steel. For points, the strongest plays are deets, deles, delts, eeled, ledes, and steed — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deletes produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are dees, deet, dele, dels, delt, elds, lede, seed, sled, teds, and teed — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deletes turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, let, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, eds, eld, led, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deletes. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are 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.
Swap a single tile in deletes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
deletes 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 1-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 deletes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
deletes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deletes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deletes, sleeted, and steeled, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deletes 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 deletes produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.