diagonally needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diagonally is the highest-scoring word from diagonally, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in diagonally — and it is diagonally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diagonally produces exactly one nine-letter word: allodynia. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonally. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dallying and dollying, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diagonally produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loading. For points, the strongest plays are daylong, godlily, and yodling — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diagonally turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gallon and laying. For points, the strongest plays are dangly and gladly — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, along, daily, doing, dying, loyal, and lying. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dying, glady, and godly — 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 diagonally produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dial, doll, gain, glad, goal, gold, and lady. For points, the strongest play is dogy — 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 diagonally turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aid, all, and, any, day, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are day, gay, goy, yag, and yod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, ay, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
diagonally 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 one sense for diagonally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
diagonally is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diagonally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is diagonally, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from diagonally 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 diagonally produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.