Hidden inside comedians sit comedians and demoniacs, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 584 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comedians and demoniacs tie for the highest Scrabble score from comedians at 14 points. The top 10 of 584 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in comedians: one comes from rearranging its letters, and comedians itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comedians. For points, the strongest plays are comedians and demoniacs — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comedians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comedian. For points, the strongest plays are comedian, daemonic, demoniac, and monacids — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comedians produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, incomes, and maidens. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including demonic, medicos and miscode.
Unscrambling comedians turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, coined and dances. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including comade, cosmid and medico.
There are 150 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comedians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aimed and aside. For points, the strongest plays are demic, domic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comedians produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids and aims. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including came, coma and come.
Unscrambling comedians turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comedians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in comedians plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in comedians and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
comedians 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for comedians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
comedians is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing comedians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are comedians and demoniacs, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from comedians 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 comedians produce 584 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 150 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.