Hidden inside delivers sit delivers, desilver, silvered and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delivers, desilver, silvered and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from delivers at 12 points. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in delivers: three come from rearranging its letters, and delivers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delivers. For points, the strongest plays are delivers, desilver, silvered, and slivered — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in delivers produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deliver. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including deliver, delvers and derives.
Unscrambling delivers turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, devils and drives. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including devils, drives and served.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delivers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, delis and devil. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including devil, dives and drive.
Rearranging the letters in delivers produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli and dies. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including dive, devi and devs.
Unscrambling delivers turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delivers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in delivers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in delivers 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.
delivers 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 twelve senses for delivers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
delivers is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delivers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delivers, desilver, silvered, and slivered, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from delivers 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 delivers produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.