Hidden inside dateline sit dateline, entailed, and lineated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dateline, entailed, and lineated tie for the highest Scrabble score from dateline at 9 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in dateline: two come from rearranging its letters, and dateline 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 dateline, entailed, and lineated, 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 dateline produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aliened, delaine, latened, and lenited, 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 dateline turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denial, dental, detail, leaned, and nailed. For points, the strongest plays are aedile, aedine, alined, aneled, anteed, delate, denial, dental, dentil, detail, detain, dilate, elated, endite, ideate, leaden, leaned, linted, nailed, nidate, and tailed — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dateline. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, dealt, eaten, ideal, and lined. For points, the strongest plays are ailed, anted, dealt, delta, diene, edile, eland, elide, ideal, ident, laden, lated, lined, naled, nidal, teind, tidal, tilde, tiled, and tined — 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 dateline produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal, deli, dial, diet, dine, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, dale, date, deal, dean, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dene, deni, dent, dial, diel, diet, dine, dint, dita, dite, edit, eide, idea, idle, lade, laid, land, lead, lede, lend, lied, need, nide, teed, tend, 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 dateline turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, ant, ate, die, eat, and end. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dal, dan, dee, del, den, die, din, dit, eld, end, lad, led, lid, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dateline. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, 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 dateline 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.
dateline 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 three senses for dateline. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
dateline is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dateline unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dateline, entailed, and lineated, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dateline 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 dateline produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.