Hidden inside diligence sit ceilinged and diligence, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ceilinged and diligence tie for the highest Scrabble score from diligence at 13 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in diligence: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diligence itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceilinged and diligence, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diligence produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceiling. For points, the strongest plays are clinged and deicing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diligence turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legend. For points, the strongest plays are ceding and dicing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diligence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, lined, and niece. For points, the strongest plays are cling, deice, genic, and icing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diligence produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dice, dine, edge, gene, lend, and lice. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, cleg, dice, and iced — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diligence turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, ice, led, and leg. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diligence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in diligence plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diligence and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
diligence 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for diligence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
diligence is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diligence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ceilinged and diligence, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diligence 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 diligence produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.