SQL Deleting while checking data from another table

I have 2 tables, words and lists.

words belong to lists and are references by listId field.

lists contain a username field.

I need to delete a word v开发者_开发百科ia it's id but first need to check that the username is correct also, therefore I need to reference the lists table.

This is what I have so far but it does not work.

DELETE FROM w
USING lists AS l INNER JOIN words AS w
WHERE 
l.username = 'admin'
AND w.listId = 31
AND l.id = w.listId

DELETE w FROM words w
INNER JOIN lists l on l.id = w.listid
WHERE 
l.username = 'admin'
AND w.listId = 31

I'm not 100% sure about my-sql syntax (I use Oracle), but this should work:

DELETE FROM words
WHERE listid in (
  SELECT 31 from lists where username = 'admin'
)

...if you really like, you could change the inner select to:

SELECT listId from lists where username = 'admin' and listId = 31

(but it's not necessary)