maladies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 247 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maladies is the highest-scoring word from maladies, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 247 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in maladies — and it is maladies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maladies produces 6 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 amidase, medials, misdeal, and mislead, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maladies turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails, ladies and mailed. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including mailed, medals and smiled.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maladies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aisle and aside. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, dimes and maids.
Rearranging the letters in maladies produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and deal. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including dime, made and maid.
Unscrambling maladies turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maladies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
Swap a single tile in maladies 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.
maladies 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 maladies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
maladies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maladies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maladies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maladies 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 maladies produce 247 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.