Hidden inside daimon sit daimon and domain, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
daimon and domain tie for the highest Scrabble score from daimon at 9 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in daimon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and daimon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are daimon and domain, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in daimon. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are admin, amido, monad, and nomad, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in daimon produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damn, maid, main, and mind. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including damn, maid and mind.
Unscrambling daimon turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in daimon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in daimon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in daimon 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.
daimon 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for daimon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
daimon is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing daimon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are daimon and domain, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from daimon 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 daimon produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.