Hidden inside diabolists sit diabolists and idioblasts, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 385 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diabolists and idioblasts tie for the highest Scrabble score from diabolists at 13 points. The top 10 of 385 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in diabolists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diabolists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diabolists and idioblasts, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diabolists turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diabolist and idioblast, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diabolists. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tabloids, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diabolists produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are libidos and tabloid, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diabolists turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blasts and idiots. For points, the strongest plays are adbots, doblas, and libido — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diabolists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, baits and basis. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including adbot, balds and bidis.
Rearranging the letters in diabolists produces 135 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, also and bail. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including bald, bids and bold.
Unscrambling diabolists turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ass. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bid and bod.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diabolists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in diabolists plus one additional letter.
diabolists 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 one sense for diabolists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
diabolists is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diabolists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diabolists and idioblasts, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diabolists 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 diabolists produce 385 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 135 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.