Hidden inside diametric sit diametric and matricide, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 313 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diametric and matricide tie for the highest Scrabble score from diametric at 14 points. The top 10 of 313 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in diametric: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diametric 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 diametric and matricide, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diametric. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dimetric and timecard, 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 diametric produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dimeric, 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 diametric turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, credit, direct, and dreamt. For points, the strongest plays are amidic and dermic — 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 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diametric. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, admit, aimed, aired, armed, cared, and cater. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — 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 diametric produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, came, card, care, cart, cram, and dare. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, cami, cram, emic, mace, marc, merc, mica, and mice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diametric turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, aim, air, are, arm, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diametric. 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.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in diametric plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diametric 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.
diametric 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 two senses for diametric. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
diametric is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diametric unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diametric and matricide, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diametric 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 diametric produce 313 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.