Delilah
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
In the Old Testament, the Philistine woman who betrayed Samson by discovering and revealing the source of his strength.
“The story of Samson and Delilah is one of the most famous tales of betrayal in scripture.”
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de·li·lah
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Contains D, E, L, I, L, A, H with two L's, H at the end is an unusual and distinctive final position
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H scores 4 and is the best tile, the two L's add modestly, valid in some Scrabble rulesets as a proper noun
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