Hidden inside diabetes sit beadiest and diabetes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beadiest and diabetes tie for the highest Scrabble score from diabetes at 11 points. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diabetes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diabetes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diabetes. For points, the strongest plays are beadiest and diabetes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diabetes produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with debates. For points, the strongest plays are bestead, betides, and debates — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diabetes turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beside, debate, seated, and teased. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including beside, debate and abides.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diabetes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, baits and based. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including based, debts and abide.
Rearranging the letters in diabetes produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, bade and bait. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including bade, beds and bids.
Unscrambling diabetes turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bid.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diabetes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in diabetes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diabetes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
diabetes 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for diabetes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
diabetes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diabetes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are beadiest and diabetes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diabetes 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 diabetes produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.