No word spells DELAYLA. Unscramble DELAYLA instead and you have 64 words, and the best is ALLAYED at 11 points. ALAYED is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DELAYLA split into 1 with 7 letters, 1 with 6, 11 with 5, 16 with 4, 22 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in DELAYLA: ALLAYED, for 11 points.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words made with DELAYLA letters: ALAYED, 10 points.
These 6 words have the length of DELAYLA, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with AL · ending in ED · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ALLAYED (11 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DELAYLA is not playable as it is in any of the three, yet its letters form 64 words that are.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELAYLA itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 64) | 52 | 64 | 51 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 12 of them: ALAYED, LALDY, YEAD, ALAY, YAD, YALE, ALDEA, DALLE, YAE, DAAL, DAE and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: DA.
This word takes every letter of DELAYLA plus a single extra one.