Hidden inside dirhams sit dirhams and midrash, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dirhams and midrash tie for the highest Scrabble score from dirhams at 13 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dirhams: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dirhams 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 dirhams and midrash, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dirhams turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dirham, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dirhams. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairs, harms, and maids. For points, the strongest plays are harms, ihram, and marsh — each 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 dirhams produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, airs, arms, dish, hair, and hams. For points, the strongest plays are hams, harm, hims, mash, sham, and shim — each 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 dirhams turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, air, arm, ash, and had. For points, the strongest plays are ham and him — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dirhams. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, am, as, ha, hi, and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 dirhams 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.
dirhams 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 dirhams carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for dirhams. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dirhams is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dirhams unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dirhams and midrash, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dirhams 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 dirhams produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.