108 words come out when you unscramble DELETIVE, starting with DELETIVE itself: 12 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, DEVILET leads with 11 points. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from DELETIVE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 6 with 6, 17 with 5, 42 with 4, 30 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in DELETIVE: DEVILET, for 11 points.
Of the 42 4-letter words from DELETIVE, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. LIVE, EDIT and DIET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DELETIVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in VE · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by EVITED, LEVEED, LEVIED and VEILED (10 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
DELETIVE is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELETIVE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 108) | 84 | 108 | 77 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DELETIVE, DEVILET, DEEVE, LEVITE, VILDE, DEEV, VILD, DIV, EVET, LEVE, VELE, VITE and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DEVI, VID, VLEI, EELED, DELT, LEDE and TE, 7 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of DELETIVE and one more.