Hidden inside dialects sit citadels and dialects, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
citadels and dialects tie for the highest Scrabble score from dialects at 11 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dialects: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dialects 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 citadels and dialects, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dialects produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details. For points, the strongest plays are castled, citadel, cladist, dacites, delicts, deltaic, dialect, and edictal — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dialects turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castle, detail, ladies, lasted, listed, sailed, and sliced. For points, the strongest plays are alcids, cadets, cisted, clades, dacite, decals, delict, deltic, dicast, edicts, scaled, sliced, and talced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dialects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aisle, aside, dates, deals, and dealt. For points, the strongest plays are acids, acted, alcid, asdic, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, cased, cedis, cited, clade, clads, daces, decal, dices, dicta, edict, laced, and scald — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dialects produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, case, cast, cats, and date. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cedi, clad, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dialects turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, ate, cat, die, and eat. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dialects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — 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 dialects 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.
dialects 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 dialects. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
dialects is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dialects unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citadels and dialects, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dialects 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 dialects produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.