Hidden inside deletion sit deletion and entoiled, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deletion and entoiled tie for the highest Scrabble score from deletion at 9 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in deletion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deletion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deletion and entoiled, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deletion produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eloined, lenited, and lentoid, 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 deletion turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denote, dentil, endite, indole, linted, and toiled, 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deletion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lined. For points, the strongest plays are diene, donee, edile, elide, ident, indol, lined, loden, noted, oiled, olden, oldie, teind, tilde, tiled, tined, toled, tondi, and toned — 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 deletion produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, diet, dine, done, edit, into, and lend. For points, the strongest plays are deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dene, deni, dent, diel, diet, dine, dino, dint, diol, dite, doit, dole, dolt, done, dote, edit, eide, idle, idol, lede, lend, lido, lied, lode, loid, need, nide, node, nodi, olde, teed, tend, tide, tied, toed, and told — 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 deletion turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, end, led, let, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, den, die, din, dit, doe, dol, don, dot, eld, end, led, lid, nod, ode, old, ted, and tod — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deletion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — 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 deletion 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.
deletion 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 four senses for deletion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
deletion is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deletion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deletion and entoiled, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deletion 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 deletion produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.