Hidden inside demit sit demit and timed, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demit and timed tie for the highest Scrabble score from demit at 8 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in demit: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demit and timed, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in demit produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dime and edit. For points, the strongest plays are dime and idem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in demit and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
demit 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.
demit is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demit and timed, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demit 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 demit produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.