15 words come out when you unscramble DELS, starting with DELS itself: 5 in Scrabble, 6 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: ELDS, SELD and SLED. 5 shorter words score 4, among them LED, EDS and ELD. The 4 letters split into 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DELS split into 4 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Trade one tile of DELS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 4-letter words: starting with DE · ending in LS · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to DELS:
DELS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DELS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 15) | 13 | 15 | 12 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: SELD and SED. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: EDS.
Each word below uses all the letters of DELS and one more.