Jumble solved
Is DELICIOUS a word? Yes.
DELICIOUS is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 9 letters, worth 12 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 260 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 260
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 9 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 5 : 4
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 5 vowels (E, I, I, O, U) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 4 remaining consonants (D, L, C, S).
delicious in a sentence
“One draught of spring's delicious air.”
— Webster 1913
Anagrams of DELICIOUS
One word uses all 9 letters:
- delicious
9-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
1 word found- diecious11
7-letter words
5 words found6-letter words
24 words found+ 9 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
75 words found+ 60 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
87 words found+ 72 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
51 words found+ 36 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
16 words found+ 1 more 2-letter word
Words hidden inside DELICIOUS
Without moving a single letter, reading delicious straight through uncovers 2 shorter words — deli, del. The longest unbroken run is deli.
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Shorter words inside DELICIOUS — solve each on its own:
Add one letter to DELICIOUS
Slot in one more tile — any letter — and delicious opens up 1 10-letter word. Handy when a puzzle gives you a blank or an extra square.
Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
9
Distinct
8
Vowels
56%
E, I, I, O, U
Consonants
44%
D, L, C, S
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Solving DELICIOUS: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters delicious?
Rearranging the 9 letters in delicious produces 260 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 9-letter answer delicious here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does delicious have any anagrams?
Using all 9 letters, delicious rearranges into exactly one word: delicious.
What is the longest word you can make from delicious?
The longest solution is delicious at 9 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from delicious?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: delicious yields cel, cis, cod, col, cos, cud, cue, del, die and dis. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
How is the word "delicious" used in a sentence?
Delicious is itself a valid word. For example: "One draught of spring's delicious air." Seeing a jumble answer used in a real sentence makes it easier to remember next time it turns up.
Which word from delicious scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, delicious is the top scorer from delicious at 12 points, followed by diecious (11), eidolic (10) and sluiced (10). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside delicious?
Read left to right without moving any letters and delicious already contains 2 shorter words: deli and del. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is deli. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.