Unscramble DELI and you have 21 words, DELI itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. 5 anagrams of DELI are on the page: DEIL, DIEL, EILD, IDLE and LIED, each 5 points. The best shorter words score 4: 7 of them, LED, DIE and LID included. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from DELI split into 6 with 4 letters, 9 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of DELI but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with DE · ending in LI · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to DELI:
DELI first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DELI, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELI itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 21) | 17 | 21 | 17 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EILD, DEI, IDE and DI, 4 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of DELI and one more.