delists needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delists is the highest-scoring word from delists, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in delists — and it is delists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delists turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listed and slides. For points, the strongest plays are deists, delist, desist, idlest, listed, sidles, silted, slides, and tildes — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, edits, lists, sides, sites, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, deist, delis, delts, desis, diets, dites, edits, idles, isled, sides, sidle, silds, sited, sleds, slide, stied, tides, tilde, and tiled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delists produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, diet, edit, less, lets, and lids. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, delt, desi, diel, dies, diet, diss, dite, dits, edit, elds, ides, idle, lids, lied, side, sild, sled, slid, teds, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delists turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, led, let, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, dit, eds, eld, ids, led, lid, and ted — each worth 4 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 delists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in delists 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.
delists 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 one sense for delists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
delists is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delists, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delists 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 delists produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.