Hidden inside delicatessen sit delicateness and delicatessen, twelve-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delicateness and delicatessen tie for the highest Scrabble score from delicatessen at 15 points. The top 10 of 1252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 twelve-letter words hiding in delicatessen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and delicatessen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these twelve-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delicateness and delicatessen, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delicatessen produces 5 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is desistance, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delicatessen turns up 23 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distances. For points, the strongest plays are antecedes, delicates, denticles, deselects, distances, and stenciled — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 92 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delicatessen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanest, cleansed, cleanses, delicate, distance, licenses, and listened. For points, the strongest plays are acidness, antecede, citadels, cladists, cleansed, danciest, deceases, declasse, declines, delicate, denticle, descales, descants, descents, deselect, dialects, discants, distance, lanceted, licensed, seedcase, selected, senesced, and silenced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delicatessen produces 192 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, candles, castles, cleaned, cleanse, clients, and deletes. For points, the strongest plays are ascends, calends, candies, candles, castled, citadel, cladist, classed, cleaned, cleated, dacites, decanes, decants, decease, deceits, deciles, declass, decline, delicts, deltaic, descale, descant, descent, dialect, dicasts, discant, discase, dissect, edictal, elected, enacted, encased, enlaced, enticed, incased, inlaced, scanted, scented, and secedes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delicatessen turns up 265 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens, candle, castle, ceased, ceases, and cleans. For points, the strongest plays are alcids, ascend, asdics, cadent, cadets, candle, canids, canted, ceased, ceiled, censed, cessed, cisted, clades, cnidae, dacite, dances, decals, decane, decani, decans, decant, deceit, decent, decile, deices, delict, deltic, dicast, edenic, edicts, lanced, nicads, scalds, scaled, scends, secede, sliced, and talced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 300 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delicatessen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cases, casts, cease, cents, class, clean, and dance. For points, the strongest plays are cades, cadet, cadis, caids, caned, canid, cased, cedes, cedis, cited, clade, clads, cnida, daces, dance, decal, decan, deice, dices, dicta, discs, scads, scald, scend, acids, acned, acted, alcid, asdic, edict, laced, and nicad — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delicatessen produces 246 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, ants, cans, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cede, cedi, clad, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delicatessen turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delicatessen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 thirteen-letter words can be made using all the letters in delicatessen plus one additional letter.
delicatessen 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for delicatessen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
delicatessen is one of two twelve-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delicatessen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delicateness and delicatessen, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delicatessen 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 delicatessen produce 1252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 twelve-letter words, 5 ten-letter words, 23 nine-letter words, 92 eight-letter words, 192 seven-letter words, 265 six-letter words, 300 five-letter words, 246 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.