dilettante needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 271 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dilettante is the highest-scoring word from dilettante, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 271 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in dilettante — and it is dilettante itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilettante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitled and talented. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including entitled, talented and dateline.
Rearranging the letters in dilettante produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including aliened, delaine and dentate.
Unscrambling dilettante turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, denial and dental. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including attend, denial and dental.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilettante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, dealt and eaten. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including dealt, ideal and lined.
Rearranging the letters in dilettante produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal and deli. For points, 38 words tie at 5 points, including date, deal and deli.
Unscrambling dilettante turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and ant. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including aid, and and die.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilettante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in dilettante plus one additional letter.
dilettante 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 2-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 dilettante. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
dilettante is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dilettante unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dilettante, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dilettante 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 dilettante produce 271 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.