deletions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 472 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deletions is the highest-scoring word from deletions, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 472 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in deletions — and it is deletions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deletions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listened. For points, the strongest plays are deletion, enlisted, entoiled, lentoids, lesioned, listened, and tinseled — 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 deletions produces 22 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 denotes, dentils, destine, eloined, endites, enisled, ensiled, indoles, isleted, lenited, lentoid, linseed, nestled, and oilseed, 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 deletions turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, listed, listen, oldest, silent, and stolen. For points, the strongest plays are delist, denies, denote, dentil, dienes, diesel, donees, donsie, ediles, eldest, elides, endite, idents, idlest, indole, indols, lensed, linted, listed, lodens, nested, noised, oldest, oldies, onside, sedile, seidel, seined, siloed, silted, soiled, stoled, stolid, stoned, teinds, tensed, tildes, todies, 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 125 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deletions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, dines, edits, lends, lined, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are deets, deils, deist, deles, delis, delts, denes, dense, dents, diene, diets, dines, dinos, dints, diols, dites, doest, doits, doles, dolts, donee, dotes, edile, edits, eidos, elide, ident, idles, idols, indol, isled, ledes, lends, lidos, lined, loden, lodes, loids, needs, nides, nodes, nosed, noted, odist, oiled, olden, oldie, sidle, sited, slide, sloid, snide, soldi, soled, solid, sonde, steed, stied, teind, tends, tides, 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 deletions produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, lent, lets, lids, lied, lies, and line. For points, the strongest plays are lede, lend, lido, lids, lied, lode, loid, need, nide, node, nodi, nods, odes, olde, olds, seed, send, side, sild, sled, slid, sned, sold, dees, deet, deil, dele, deli, dels, delt, dene, deni, dens, dent, desi, diel, dies, diet, dine, dino, dins, dint, diol, dite, dits, does, doit, dole, dols, dolt, done, dons, dose, dost, dote, dots, edit, eide, elds, ends, ides, idle, idol, teds, teed, tend, tide, tied, tods, 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 deletions turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, end, ids, its, led, and let. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, den, die, din, dis, dit, doe, dol, don, dos, dot, eds, eld, end, ids, led, lid, nod, ode, ods, old, sod, 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deletions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, it, no, and on. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in deletions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deletions 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.
deletions 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 deletions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
deletions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deletions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deletions, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deletions 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 deletions produce 472 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 125 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.