dimethyls needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dimethyls is the highest-scoring word from dimethyls, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dimethyls — and it is dimethyls itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dimethyls produces exactly one eight-letter word: dimethyl. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dimethyls produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mildest. For points, the strongest play is methyls — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dimethyls turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listed, smiled, and smiley. For points, the strongest plays are methyl, smithy, and thymes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dimethyls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets and dimes. For points, the strongest plays are meshy, myths, thyme, and thymi — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dimethyls produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and diet. For points, the strongest play is myth — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dimethyls turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye and hey. For points, the strongest plays are hey, shy, thy, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dimethyls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dimethyls 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.
dimethyls 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in dimethyls carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
dimethyls is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dimethyls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dimethyls, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dimethyls 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 dimethyls produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.