Hidden inside demies sit demies and demise, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demies and demise tie for the highest Scrabble score from demies at 9 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in demies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demies 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 demies and demise, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes. For points, the strongest plays are deems, deism, demes, dimes, disme, and meeds — 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 demies produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, seed, seem, and side. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, dime, dims, idem, meds, meed, 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 demies turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dim, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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 demies 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.
demies 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.
demies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demies and demise, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demies 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 demies produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.