Hidden inside delight sit delight and lighted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delight and lighted tie for the highest Scrabble score from delight at 12 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in delight: one comes from rearranging its letters, and delight itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: delight and lighted, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delight produces exactly one six-letter word: hilted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delight. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight and light. For points, the strongest play is dight — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delight produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, diet, edit, held, hide, lied, and tied. For points, the strongest plays are held, hide, and hied — 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 delight turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, get, hid, hit, led, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are edh, ghi, and hid — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delight. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 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 delight 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.
delight 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 five senses for delight. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
delight is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delight unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delight and lighted, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delight 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 delight produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.