Unscramble DIALECTAL and you have 219 words, DIALECTAL itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DIALECTAL split into 1 with 9 letters, 9 with 7, 26 with 6, 48 with 5, 60 with 4, 55 with 3 and 20 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 26 6-letter words in DIALECTAL, 8 score 9 points, the group's best. CALLED, DETAIL and ALLIED are the ones most people know.
15 of 48 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DIALECTAL tie at 8 points; none scores more. DELTA, IDEAL and CITED will look familiar.
60 4-letter words from DIALECTAL; 13 of them share the top score of 7. DATE, DATA and CALL are everyday picks.
The 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DIALECTAL are led by CAD and CID, 6 points each. ALL, LET and ACT are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DIALECTAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DI · ending in AL · all 9-letter words
DIALECTAL 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 DIALECTAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIALECTAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 219) | 173 | 219 | 165 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 46 of them: CALLID, ALLICE, CAAED, CADIE, CAILLE, CALID, CLIED, DIACT, TICED, CIDE, CITAL, DICT and 34 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: DACITE, ACAI, CLIT, CAL, DELT, TEC, DA and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of DIALECTAL and one more.