Hidden inside diet sit diet, dite, edit and 2 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diet, dite, edit and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from diet at 5 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 four-letter words hiding in diet: four come from rearranging its letters, and diet itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, edit, and tied. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including diet, edit and tied.
27 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in diet plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diet 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.
diet 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 diet carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for diet. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
diet is one of five four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diet unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diet, dite, edit, tide, and tied, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diet 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 diet produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.