Hidden inside detale sit delate and elated, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DETALE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DELATE and ELATED.
delate and elated tie for the highest Scrabble score from detale at 7 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling detale turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delate and elated, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt. For points, the strongest plays are dealt, delta, and lated — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in detale produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal and late. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including date, deal and lead.
Unscrambling detale turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and lad. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including lad, led and tad.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
20 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in detale plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in detale 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delate and elated, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detale 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 detale produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.