Hidden inside dekaliter sit dekaliter and dekalitre, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 371 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dekaliter and dekalitre tie for the highest Scrabble score from dekaliter at 14 points. The top 10 of 371 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in dekaliter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dekaliter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dekaliter and dekalitre, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dekaliter. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tearlike, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dekaliter produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered and related. For points, the strongest plays are kirtled and traiked — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dekaliter turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, detail, leader, relate, relied, and talked. For points, the strongest plays are daiker, darkle, dekare, kilted, larked, leaked, and talked — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dekaliter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, alert, alike, alter, dealt, ideal, and later. For points, the strongest plays are diker, drake, irked, kited, laked, liked, and raked — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dekaliter produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dark, date, deal, dear, deer, and deli. For points, the strongest plays are dark, deke, dike, dirk, drek, eked, and kadi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dekaliter turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, art, ate, die, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are dak and kid — each worth 8 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 dekaliter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in dekaliter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dekaliter and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
dekaliter 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 one sense for dekaliter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
dekaliter is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dekaliter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dekaliter and dekalitre, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dekaliter 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 dekaliter produce 371 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.