Hidden inside delimit sit delimit and limited, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delimit and limited tie for the highest Scrabble score from delimit at 10 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in delimit: one comes from rearranging its letters, and delimit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limited. For points, the strongest plays are delimit and limited — 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 delimit produces exactly one six-letter word: milted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delimit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limit. For points, the strongest plays are demit, imide, limed, medii, timed, and timid — 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 delimit produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, diet, dime, edit, item, lied, and melt. For points, the strongest plays are dime, idem, imid, meld, midi, and mild — 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 delimit turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, led, let, lid, lie, lit, and met. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delimit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 delimit 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.
delimit 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 three senses for delimit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
delimit is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delimit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delimit and limited, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delimit 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 delimit produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.