diligent needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diligent is the highest-scoring word from diligent, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in diligent — and it is diligent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diligent produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editing. For points, the strongest plays are dieting, editing, eliding, glinted, ignited, and tingled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diligent turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dieing, dingle, engild, idling, nidget, tiding, and tinged, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diligent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii and lined. For points, the strongest plays are deign, digit, dinge, gelid, and glide — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diligent produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, diet, dine, edit, lend, lent, and lied. For points, the strongest plays are ding, geld, gied, gild, and gled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling diligent turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, get, led, leg, and let. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diligent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. 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.
Swap a single tile in diligent 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.
diligent 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 two senses for diligent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
diligent is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diligent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is diligent, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from diligent 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 diligent produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.