Hidden inside diamines sit amidines and diamines, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amidines and diamines tie for the highest Scrabble score from diamines at 11 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diamines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diamines 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 amidines and diamines, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diamines produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maidens. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including maidens, amidine and amidins.
Unscrambling diamines turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inside and maiden. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, admins and aidmen.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diamines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aside and damns. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, damns and dimes.
Rearranging the letters in diamines produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and amen. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling diamines turns up 44 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diamines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in diamines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diamines 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.
diamines 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 diamines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
diamines is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diamines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amidines and diamines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diamines 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 diamines produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.