delineating needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 518 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delineating is the highest-scoring word from delineating, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 518 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in delineating — and it is delineating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delineating produces exactly one ten-letter word: datelining. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling delineating turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detailing, detaining, entangled, and leadening, 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 28 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delineating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deleting. For points, the strongest plays are danegelt, delating, deleting, detangle, dilating, diligent, enditing, gliadine, ideating, indigene, indigent, ladening, needling, and nidating — 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 delineating produces 65 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing, dialing, editing, elegant, landing, leading, and leaning. For points, the strongest plays are agented, aligned, angeled, dealign, dealing, deaning, deleing, denting, dialing, dieting, digital, dinting, editing, eliding, engined, gelated, gentled, gleaned, gliadin, glinted, ignited, indigen, landing, leading, legated, lending, ligated, needing, negated, tangled, tending, 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 delineating turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dating, denial, dental, detail, dining, eating, and ending. For points, the strongest plays are aiding, angled, dangle, dating, dieing, dingle, dining, eagled, ending, engild, gained, gaited, genned, ginned, idling, indign, lading, lagend, legend, ligand, nidget, niding, tanged, tiding, and tinged — 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 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delineating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien, angel, angle, dealt, eaten, and genii. For points, the strongest plays are algid, deign, digit, dinge, galed, gated, gelid, glade, gland, glede, gleed, glide, and ledge — 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 delineating produces 119 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, edge, egad, gadi, gaed, geed, geld, gied, gild, glad, and gled — 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 delineating turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, and, ant, ate, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, ged, and gid — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in delineating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, 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.
delineating 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
delineating is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing delineating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is delineating, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from delineating 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 delineating produce 518 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 7 nine-letter words, 28 eight-letter words, 65 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.