Hidden inside dilatory sit adroitly, dilatory, and idolatry, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adroitly, dilatory, and idolatry tie for the highest Scrabble score from dilatory at 12 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in dilatory: two come from rearranging its letters, and dilatory itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adroitly, dilatory, and idolatry, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dilatory produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tardily, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dilatory turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aridly, daylit, and drylot, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daily, dairy and diary. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including daily, dairy and diary.
Rearranging the letters in dilatory produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dial, dirt and lady. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including lady, yard and dory.
Unscrambling dilatory turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and art. For points, the strongest plays are day, dry, and yod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in dilatory plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dilatory and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
dilatory 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 dilatory carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for dilatory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dilatory is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dilatory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adroitly, dilatory, and idolatry, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dilatory 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 dilatory produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.