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DELTA

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DELTA Means

  1. noun: a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water“the Mississippi River delta”
  2. noun: an object shaped like an equilateral triangle

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DELTA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 L1 T1 A1.

Anagrams of DELTA (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In DELTA

49 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (20)

2 letter words (13)

Longer Words Containing DELTA

DELTA appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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