diagonals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 363 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diagonals is the highest-scoring word from diagonals, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 363 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in diagonals — and it is diagonals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diagonal, gonadial, and loadings, 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 diagonals produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loading. For points, the strongest plays are adagios, dialogs, ganoids, gonadal, ladings, ligands, 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 diagonals turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with island, losing, sandal, and signal. For points, the strongest plays are adagio, algoid, dialog, dingos, doings, doling, dongas, dosing, ganoid, glands, gonads, 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, along, dials, doing, gains, goals, and golds. For points, the strongest plays are algid, dangs, dingo, dings, doing, donga, dongs, gadis, gilds, glads, gland, goads, golds, 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 diagonals produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, also, dial, digs, dogs, gain, and gals. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, dogs, dong, gadi, gads, gids, gild, glad, goad, gods, 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 diagonals turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago, aid, and, dig, dog, and gal. 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diagonals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, go, id, and in. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in diagonals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diagonals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
diagonals 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 diagonals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
diagonals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diagonals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is diagonals, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from diagonals 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 diagonals produce 363 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.