Hidden inside aimed sit aimed, amide, and media, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aimed, amide, and media tie for the highest Scrabble score from aimed at 8 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in aimed: two come from rearranging its letters, and aimed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed and media. For points, the strongest plays are aimed, amide, and media — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aimed produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime, idea, made, and maid. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, dime, idem, made, maid, and mead — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aimed turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, die, and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aimed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, id, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in aimed and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
aimed is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
aimed is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aimed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aimed, amide, and media, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aimed earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in aimed produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.