Unscramble DELTOIDEI and you have 146 words, DELTOIDEI itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, DELTOID and DOILIED lead with 9 points. It has 9 letters, 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from DELTOIDEI by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 15 with 6, 25 with 5, 49 with 4, 36 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 8 letters.
49 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DELTOIDEI; 5 of them share the top score of 6. EDIT, TOLD and DIET are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of DELTOIDEI but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DE · ending in EI · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by DELTOID and DOILIED (9 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. DELTOIDEI is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELTOIDEI itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 146) | 122 | 146 | 114 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
24 of the 146 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TEDDIE, TIDDLE, DITED, TODDE, DEID, DOILT, LITED, DELO, DOD, EILD, IDEE, LEED and 12 more. 8 of the 146 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DOILIED, LOIDED, DELT, LEDE, LOID, OLDE, OI and TE.