Hidden inside delays sit delays and slayed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delays and slayed tie for the highest Scrabble score from delays at 10 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in delays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and delays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delays. For points, the strongest plays are delays and slayed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deals, delay, leads, and sadly. For points, the strongest plays are delay, layed, leady, lysed, sadly, and sayed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delays produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with days, deal, dyes, easy, lads, lady, and lays. For points, the strongest plays are days, deys, dyes, lady, yald, and yeld — 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 delays turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aye, day, dye, lad, lay, and led. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, and dye — 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 delays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — 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 delays and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
delays 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in delays carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for delays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
delays is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delays and slayed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delays 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 delays produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.