DELIGHTSOME is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. DELIGHTSOME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DELIGHTSOME?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DELIGHTSOME is to know. It scores 18 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DELIGHTSOME
No single letter turns DELIGHTSOME into another word.
How DELIGHTSOME scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in DELIGHTSOME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DELIGHTSOME has to be built on the board across turns.
What does DELIGHTSOME mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryarchaic
Highly pleasing and charming.
Delightsome is an old-fashioned cousin of delightful and appears mostly in poetry, scripture and period writing. Modern speakers rarely use delightsome except for deliberate flavour. It gives a text a slightly antique warmth.
How DELIGHTSOME is used
Archaic or literary, mainly in older texts.
- It was a delightsome evening by the river.
- The poet praised a delightsome land of green hills.
- A delightsome garden lay beyond the old wall.
- She wrote of a delightsome journey in her letters.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DELIGHTSOME and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DELIGHTSOME
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Common questions about DELIGHTSOME
- Is DELIGHTSOME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DELIGHTSOME, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DELIGHTSOME worth?
- DELIGHTSOME is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DELIGHTSOME mean?
- Highly pleasing and charming.
- What letters can be added to DELIGHTSOME?
- No single letter can be added to DELIGHTSOME to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of DELIGHTSOME:
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