Hidden inside dilates sit details and dilates, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
details and dilates tie for the highest Scrabble score from dilates at 8 points. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dilates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dilates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details. For points, the strongest plays are details and dilates — 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 dilates turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail, ladies, lasted, listed, and sailed. For points, the strongest plays are aisled, deasil, delist, deltas, desalt, detail, dilate, distal, ideals, idlest, ladies, lasted, listed, sailed, salted, silted, slated, staled, tailed, 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside, dates, deals, dealt, delis, and dials. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aides, ailed, aside, dales, dates, deals, dealt, deils, deist, delis, delta, delts, dials, diets, ditas, dites, edits, ideal, ideas, idles, isled, lades, lased, lated, leads, sated, sidle, sited, slide, stade, staid, stead, stied, tased, tidal, tides, tilde, tiled, tsade, and tsadi — 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 dilates produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date, deal, deli, dial, dies, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, dais, dale, dals, date, deal, deil, deli, dels, delt, desi, dial, diel, dies, diet, dita, dite, dits, edit, elds, idea, ides, idle, lade, lads, laid, lead, lids, lied, sade, sadi, said, side, sild, sled, slid, tads, 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 dilates turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ate, die, eat, ids, and its. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, dal, das, del, die, dis, dit, eds, eld, ids, lad, led, lid, sad, tad, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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 dilates 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.
dilates 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 two senses for dilates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
dilates is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dilates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are details and dilates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dilates 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 dilates produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.