diligently needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 230 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diligently is the highest-scoring word from diligently, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 230 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in diligently — and it is diligently itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diligently. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelidity and yielding, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in diligently produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dignity, editing, telling, and yelling. For points, the strongest plays are dignity, dingily, gelidly, and tidying — 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 diligently turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dyeing and gently. For points, the strongest plays are dingey, dyeing, and edgily — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diligently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dying, genii, lined, lying, and tying. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dying, and ledgy — each 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 diligently produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, deny, diet, dine, edit, lend, and lent. For points, the strongest play is edgy — 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 diligently turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dye, end, get, ill, and led. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dye, and gey — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diligently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
diligently 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 diligently. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
diligently is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diligently unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is diligently, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from diligently 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 diligently produce 230 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.