Hidden inside diastema sit adamsite and diastema, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 224 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adamsite and diastema tie for the highest Scrabble score from diastema at 11 points. The top 10 of 224 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diastema: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diastema 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 adamsite and diastema, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diastema produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amidase, diastem, and misdate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diastema turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits and stadia. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including admits, amides and amidst.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diastema. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and aside. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and dimes.
Rearranging the letters in diastema produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and data. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including dime, made and maid.
Unscrambling diastema turns up 50 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diastema. 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.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in diastema plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diastema 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.
diastema 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 one sense for diastema. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
diastema is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diastema unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adamsite and diastema, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diastema 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 diastema produce 224 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.