Hidden inside diameter sit diameter and diatreme, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diameter and diatreme tie for the highest Scrabble score from diameter at 11 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diameter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diameter 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 diameter and diatreme, 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 diameter 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 demerit, dimeter, mediate, merited, mitered, readmit, remated, and retimed, 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 diameter turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire and dreamt. For points, the strongest plays are admire, dreamt, itemed, marted, meated, mediae, metred, mitred, reamed, remade, teamed, and termed — 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 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diameter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aired, armed, dream, media, and meter. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admit, aimed, amide, armed, demit, derma, dimer, diram, dream, edema, madre, mated, media, merde, meted, mired, rimed, tamed, and timed — 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 diameter produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, deer, diet, dime, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, deem, deme, derm, dime, dram, idem, made, maid, mead, and meed — 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 diameter turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, air, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, med, and mid — each 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 diameter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, id, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 diameter 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.
diameter 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for diameter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
diameter is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diameter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diameter and diatreme, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diameter 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 diameter produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.