diamond needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NDAMDIO, DDAMION or MONIDAD and you get the same 7 letters as DIAMOND: so the words from DIAMOND listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
diamond is the highest-scoring word from diamond, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in diamond — and it is diamond itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diamond. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are admin, amido, monad, and nomad, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diamond produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damn, maid, main, and mind. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including damn, maid and mind.
Unscrambling diamond turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid and aim. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diamond. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in diamond plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diamond and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
diamond 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 six senses for diamond. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
diamond is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diamond unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is diamond, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from diamond 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 diamond produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.