Hidden inside delighter sit delighter, lightered, and relighted, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delighter, lightered, and relighted tie for the highest Scrabble score from delighter at 14 points. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in delighter: two come from rearranging its letters, and delighter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delighter, lightered, and relighted, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delighter produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delight, lighted, and lighter. For points, the strongest plays are delight, girthed, hedgier, lighted, and righted — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delighter turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either and relied. For points, the strongest plays are dreigh, driegh, and hedger — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delighter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, greet, hired, light, right, their, and there. For points, the strongest plays are dight and hedge — each 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 delighter produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli, diet, dirt, edge, edit, and girl. For points, the strongest plays are ghee, heed, held, herd, 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 delighter turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, gee, get, her, hid, and hit. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delighter. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in delighter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in delighter 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.
delighter 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.
delighter is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delighter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delighter, lightered, and relighted, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delighter 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 delighter produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.