Hidden inside demons sit demons and mondes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demons and mondes tie for the highest Scrabble score from demons at 9 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in demons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons. For points, the strongest plays are demons and mondes — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon and modes. For points, the strongest plays are demon, demos, domes, mends, modes, and monde — 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 demons produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, ends, mode, nose, ones, and send. For points, the strongest plays are demo, dome, doms, meds, mend, mode, and mods — 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 demons turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, men, one, and son. For points, the strongest plays are dom, med, and mod — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — 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 demons 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.
demons 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 three senses for demons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
demons is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demons and mondes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demons 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 demons produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.