Hidden inside diodes sit didoes, diodes, and soddie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
didoes, diodes, and soddie tie for the highest Scrabble score from diodes at 8 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in diodes: two come from rearranging its letters, and diodes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are didoes, diodes, and soddie, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diodes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are didos, diode, dosed, and sided, 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 diodes produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with died, dies, does, odds, and side. For points, the strongest plays are dido, died, eddo, and odds — 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 diodes turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, ids, and odd. For points, the strongest plays are did and odd — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diodes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — 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 diodes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
diodes 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 diodes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for diodes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
diodes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diodes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are didoes, diodes, and soddie, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diodes 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 diodes produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.