Hidden inside diar sit arid and raid, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DIAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARID and RAID.
arid and raid tie for the highest Scrabble score from diar at 5 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in diar produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arid and raid, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
32 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in diar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diar and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arid and raid, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diar 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 diar produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.