Hidden inside medals sit damsel, lameds, and medals, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damsel, lameds, and medals tie for the highest Scrabble score from medals at 9 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in medals: two come from rearranging its letters, and medals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with medals. For points, the strongest plays are damsel, lameds, and medals — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deals, leads, males, meals, and medal. For points, the strongest plays are dames, lamed, meads, medal, and melds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in medals produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, lads, lame, lead, made, male, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are dame, dams, made, mads, mead, meds, and meld — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling medals turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, lad, led, mad, sad, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 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 medals and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
medals 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 one sense for medals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
medals is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are damsel, lameds, and medals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medals 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 medals produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.