dilemmas needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 247 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dilemmas is the highest-scoring word from dilemmas, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 247 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in dilemmas — and it is dilemmas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dilemmas produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slammed. For points, the strongest plays are dilemma, mismade, slammed, and slimmed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dilemmas turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails, ladies, mailed, medals, sailed, and smiled. For points, the strongest plays are lammed and maimed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilemmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aisle, aside, deals, delis, dials, and dimes. For points, the strongest play is mimed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dilemmas produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, deal, deli, dial, dies, and dime. For points, the strongest plays are imam, maim, malm, mams, mems, and mime — 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 dilemmas turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, die, ids, lad, and led. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mem, and mim — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilemmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, id, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 dilemmas 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.
dilemmas 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 3-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 dilemmas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dilemmas is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dilemmas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dilemmas, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dilemmas 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 dilemmas produce 247 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.