dissimilar needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dissimilar is the highest-scoring word from dissimilar, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in dissimilar — and it is dissimilar itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dissimilar produces exactly one eight-letter word: misdials. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dissimilar produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with similar. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including disarms, dismals and midairs.
Unscrambling dissimilar turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirams, disarm, dismal and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dissimilar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dials, liars and maids. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including maids, amids and diram.
Rearranging the letters in dissimilar produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and airs. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including maid, mild and amid.
Unscrambling dissimilar turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dissimilar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in dissimilar plus one additional letter.
dissimilar 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for dissimilar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dissimilar is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dissimilar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dissimilar, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dissimilar 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 dissimilar produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.