DELEAD is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. DELEAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DELEAD?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DELEAD is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DELEAD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
deleadsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DELEAD scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DELEAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 83,618.
What stands out about DELEAD
- DELEAD begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DELEAD mean in Scrabble?
verb
technicalrare
To remove lead from something, especially from a metal object as part of an industrial process.
Delead is a narrow, workshop word, describing the step in metalworking where lead used as a lubricant during cold-drawing is stripped away from the finished piece. Outside that specific industrial context the word delead is rarely needed, since ordinary lead removal, say from old paint, is more often just called removing lead than deleading it, though the technical term does apply there too. The prefix de- simply reverses lead in the way it reverses many other verbs built the same way.
How DELEAD is used
A specialist, technical term found in metalworking and occasionally in descriptions of removing lead paint or lead contamination.
- Workers delead the wire before it leaves the drawing shop.
- The old plumbing had to be deleaded before it was reused.
- A special bath is used to delead the metal surface.
- Contractors delead painted surfaces in older houses as a safety step.
- The machine can delead a length of rod in seconds.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DELEAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DELEAD
The 6 tiles of DELEAD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DELEAD
3 longer words begin with DELEAD.
Shorter words from the letters in DELEAD
Common questions about DELEAD
- Is DELEAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DELEAD, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DELEAD worth?
- DELEAD is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DELEAD mean?
- To remove lead from something, especially from a metal object as part of an industrial process.
- What letters can be added to DELEAD?
- DELEAD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DELEAD:
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