Hidden inside diagonal sit diagonal and gonadial, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diagonal and gonadial tie for the highest Scrabble score from diagonal at 10 points. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diagonal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diagonal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diagonal and gonadial, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diagonal produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loading. For points, the strongest plays are gonadal and loading — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diagonal turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adagio, algoid, dialog, doling, ganoid, lading, and ligand, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, along, and doing. For points, the strongest plays are algid, dingo, doing, donga, gland, and gonad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diagonal produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dial, gain, glad, goal, gold, laid, and land. For points, the strongest plays are dang, ding, dong, gadi, gild, glad, goad, and gold — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diagonal turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aid, and, dig, dog, gal, and god. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, dog, gad, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, do, go, id, in, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, do, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 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 diagonal 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.
diagonal 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for diagonal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
diagonal is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diagonal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diagonal and gonadial, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diagonal 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 diagonal produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.