Unscramble DELAYED and you have 79 words, DELAYED itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. DEADLY is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of DELAYED in one turn: 62 in Scrabble (12 + 50), 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
AEELDDY unscrambles to DELAYED: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for yaedled, deleday, laddeye, yedelda, addeley, deedyla, dyedlea, adelyde, ddeeayl or deadyle? They use the same letters as DELAYED, so the words on this page are their answers too.
D2E1L12A1Y43E1D2
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from DELAYED by length: 1 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 13 with 5, 24 with 4, 24 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Keep every letter of DELAYED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ED · all 7-letter words
What DELAYED means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DELAYED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELAYED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 79) | 62 | 79 | 59 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALEYED, ADDY, DEELY, ALEYE, YEAD, YEDE, YEED, DALED, YAD, YALE, EALED, YAE and 5 more, 17 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LADDY, LEDE and DA, 3 in all.
This word takes every letter of DELAYED plus a single extra one.