Hidden inside delights sit delights and slighted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delights and slighted tie for the highest Scrabble score from delights at 13 points. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in delights: one comes from rearranging its letters, and delights itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delights. For points, the strongest plays are delights and slighted — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delights produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delight and lighted. For points, the strongest plays are delight, lighted, and sighted — 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 delights turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lights, listed, sleigh, and slight. For points, the strongest plays are dights and sighed — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, edits, eight, hides, light, and sight. 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 delights produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, diet, digs, dish, edit, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are dish, edhs, ghis, held, hide, hied, shed, sidh, and sigh — 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 delights turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, get, hid, his, hit, and ids. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, id, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — 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 delights 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.
delights 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 delights. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
delights is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delights unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delights and slighted, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delights 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 delights produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.