Hidden inside diplomas sit diplomas and plasmoid, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diplomas and plasmoid tie for the highest Scrabble score from diplomas at 13 points. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diplomas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diplomas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diplomas and plasmoid, 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 diplomas produces 4 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 diploma and plasmid, 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 diplomas turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limpas, lipoma, and milpas, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diplomas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dials, lamps, limos, loads, maids, mails, and solid. For points, the strongest play is damps — 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 diplomas produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, also, lads, laid, lamp, and laps. For points, the strongest play is damp — 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 diplomas turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, dip, ids, lad, and lap. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, mop, pam, and pom — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diplomas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, do, id, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, om, op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 diplomas and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
diplomas 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 diplomas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
diplomas is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diplomas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diplomas and plasmoid, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diplomas 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 diplomas produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.