Hidden inside decimal sit camelid, claimed, decimal and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
camelid, claimed, decimal and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimal at 12 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in decimal: four come from rearranging its letters, and decimal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claimed and medical. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including claimed, medical and camelid.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, camel and claim. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decimal produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, calm and came. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including calm, came and mice.
Unscrambling decimal turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and die. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, id, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in decimal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decimal and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
decimal 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 three senses for decimal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
decimal is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are camelid, claimed, decimal, declaim, and medical, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimal 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 decimal produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.