Hidden inside diem sit dime and idem, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DEIM, EMID or EDMI and you get the same 4 letters as DIEM: so the words from DIEM listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
DIEM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DIME and IDEM.
dime and idem tie for the highest Scrabble score from diem at 7 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in diem produces 2 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime. For points, the strongest plays are dime and idem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
26 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in diem plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diem 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 dime and idem, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diem 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 diem produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.