Hidden inside dilutes sit dilutes and duelist, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dilutes and duelist tie for the highest Scrabble score from dilutes at 8 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dilutes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dilutes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dilutes and duelist, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dilutes turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duties, listed, and suited. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including duties, listed and suited.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets and edits. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including delis, diets and edits.
Rearranging the letters in dilutes produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and diet. For points, 34 words tie at 5 points, including deli, dies and diet.
Unscrambling dilutes turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and ids. For points, 13 words tie at 4 points, including die, due and ids.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dilutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
15 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in dilutes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dilutes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dilutes 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 2-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 dilutes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
dilutes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dilutes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dilutes and duelist, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dilutes 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 dilutes produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.