delegation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 625 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delegation is the highest-scoring word from delegation, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 625 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in delegation — and it is delegation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delegation turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is elongated, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deleting. For points, the strongest plays are danegelt, delating, deleting, detangle, and eloigned — 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 delegation produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing, elegant, leading, and loading. For points, the strongest plays are agented, aligned, angeled, dealign, dealing, deleing, doating, dogtail, donegal, gelated, gentled, geoidal, gleaned, glenoid, glinted, gloated, goateed, godetia, ingoted, leading, legated, ligated, loading, negated, tangled, tangoed, and tingled — 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 delegation turns up 110 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dating, denial, dental, detail, donate, eating, and gained. For points, the strongest plays are algoid, angled, dangle, dating, dialog, diglot, dingle, doling, dongle, dotage, doting, eagled, engild, gained, gaited, ganoid, gaoled, goaled, golden, lading, lagend, legend, ligand, longed, nidget, tanged, tinged, togaed, and tonged — 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 132 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien, alone, along, angel, angle, and dealt. For points, the strongest plays are algid, deign, dinge, dingo, dogie, doing, donga, galed, gated, gelid, geode, geoid, glade, gland, glede, gleed, glide, godet, gonad, ledge, lodge, ogeed, and ogled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in delegation produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, date, deal, deli, dial, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, ding, doge, dong, edge, egad, gadi, gaed, geed, geld, gied, gild, glad, gled, goad, and gold — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling delegation turns up 105 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, aid, and, ant, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, dog, gad, ged, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delegation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, do, ed, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in delegation plus one additional letter.
delegation 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 3-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 delegation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
delegation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delegation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delegation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delegation 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 delegation produce 625 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 110 six-letter words, 132 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 105 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.