Hidden inside amidst sit admits and amidst, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
admits and amidst tie for the highest Scrabble score from amidst at 9 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in amidst: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amidst itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits. For points, the strongest plays are admits and amidst — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amidst. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit and maids. For points, the strongest plays are admit, amids, maids, and midst — 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 amidst produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, maid, said, and tads. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dams, dims, mads, maid, and mids — 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 amidst turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, ids, its, mad, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amidst. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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 amidst and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
amidst 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.
amidst is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amidst unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are admits and amidst, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amidst 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 amidst produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.