Hidden inside medallion sit medaillon and medallion, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 338 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
medaillon and medallion tie for the highest Scrabble score from medallion at 12 points. The top 10 of 338 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in medallion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medallion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are medaillon and medallion, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling medallion produces exactly one eight-letter word: melanoid. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in medallion 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 amidone, domaine, and melodia, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling medallion turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denial, loaned and maiden. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, mailed and aidmen.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medallion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, alien and alone. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, demon and medal.
Rearranging the letters in medallion produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, laid and lame. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and mild.
Unscrambling medallion turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and all. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medallion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in medallion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in medallion 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.
medallion 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for medallion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
medallion is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medallion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are medaillon and medallion, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medallion 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 medallion produce 338 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.