Hidden inside diameters sit diameters, diatremes, and dreamiest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 675 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diameters, diatremes, and dreamiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from diameters at 12 points. The top 10 of 675 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in diameters: two come from rearranging its letters, and diameters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diameters, diatremes, and dreamiest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diameters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastered, readiest, and steadier. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including mastered, demerits and demister.
Rearranging the letters in diameters produces 57 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires, dearest, maestri, and steamed. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including admires, steamed and demerit.
Unscrambling diameters turns up 126 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, admits and armies. For points, 34 words tie at 9 points, including admire, admits and dreams.
There are 194 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diameters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and aired. For points, 33 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and armed.
Rearranging the letters in diameters produces 170 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and airs. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and dime.
Unscrambling diameters turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diameters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in diameters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diameters 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.
diameters 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 diameters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
diameters is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diameters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diameters, diatremes, and dreamiest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diameters 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 diameters produce 675 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 57 seven-letter words, 126 six-letter words, 194 five-letter words, 170 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.