Hidden inside diaries sit airside, dairies, and diaries, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
airside, dairies, and diaries tie for the highest Scrabble score from diaries at 8 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in diaries: two come from rearranging its letters, and diaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dairies and diaries. For points, the strongest plays are airside, dairies, and diaries — 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 diaries turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raised. For points, the strongest plays are aiders, deairs, irades, irides, irised, raised, redias, and resaid — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, dares, dears, dries, ideas, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aides, aired, aside, dares, deair, dears, dries, ideas, irade, irids, radii, raids, rased, reads, redia, resid, rides, and sired — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diaries produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, dare, dear, dies, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aide, aids, arid, dais, dare, dear, desi, dies, dire, idea, ides, ired, irid, rads, raid, read, reds, ride, rids, sade, sadi, said, sard, and side — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diaries turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, die, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, das, die, dis, eds, ids, rad, red, rid, and sad — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in diaries 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.
diaries 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in diaries carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for diaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
diaries is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airside, dairies, and diaries, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diaries 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 diaries produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.