DELATE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. DELATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DELATE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DELATE is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DELATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DELATE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DELATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,904.
What does DELATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaiclegal
To lay a formal accusation against someone, informing an authority of an offence they are said to have committed.
To delate someone was to lodge a formal accusation or report against them, a sense once common in Scots law and church discipline, where a person could be delated to a court or council for an offence. The word could also describe the more general act of informing on or denouncing another person outside any formal proceeding. Delate survives today mainly in historical, legal or literary writing rather than everyday speech, having been largely replaced by report or denounce. An older, now rare sense of the same word meant simply to carry news abroad or make something widely known.
How DELATE is used
Archaic legal term, met chiefly in historical, Scots-law and literary writing about formal accusation.
- The elder was delated to the church court for his conduct.
- Neighbours would sometimes delate a suspected witch to the local magistrate.
- The chronicle records how the merchant was delated for smuggling.
- He feared being delated to the authorities by a jealous rival.
- Old records show several tenants delated for failing to pay their dues.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DELATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DELATE
The 6 tiles of DELATE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DELATE
2 longer words begin with DELATE.
Shorter words from the letters in DELATE
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Common questions about DELATE
- Is DELATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DELATE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DELATE worth?
- DELATE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DELATE mean?
- To lay a formal accusation against someone, informing an authority of an offence they are said to have committed.
- What letters can be added to DELATE?
- DELATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DELATE:
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