Hidden inside dinnertime sit dinnertime and intermedin, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 266 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dinnertime and intermedin tie for the highest Scrabble score from dinnertime at 13 points. The top 10 of 266 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in dinnertime: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dinnertime itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dinnertime and intermedin, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dinnertime produces exactly one nine-letter word: netminder. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dinnertime. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diriment and reminted, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dinnertime produces 20 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dementi, demerit, deminer and 6 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dinnertime turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinner, entire and intend. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including remind, dement and itemed.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dinnertime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, enter and inner. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including demit, denim and dimer.
Rearranging the letters in dinnertime produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet and dime. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including dime, mind and deem.
Unscrambling dinnertime turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and men. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dinnertime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in dinnertime plus one additional letter.
dinnertime 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 dinnertime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dinnertime is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dinnertime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dinnertime and intermedin, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dinnertime 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 dinnertime produce 266 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.