diversity needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 196 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diversity is the highest-scoring word from diversity, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 196 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in diversity — and it is diversity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diversity produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with visited. For points, the strongest plays are diverts, strived, and visited — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diversity turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, drives, and dryest. For points, the strongest plays are verity and vestry — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diversity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dirty and dives. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including dirty, dives and drive.
Rearranging the letters in diversity produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are tivy and very — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diversity turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dry and dye. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diversity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in diversity and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
diversity 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 diversity carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for diversity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
diversity is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diversity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is diversity, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from diversity 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 diversity produce 196 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.