Hidden inside medal sit lamed and medal, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lamed and medal tie for the highest Scrabble score from medal at 8 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in medal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with medal. For points, the strongest plays are lamed and medal — 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 medal produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, lame, lead, made, male, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are dame, made, mead, 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 medal turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lad, led, and mad. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, 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 medal and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
medal 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 medal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
medal is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lamed and medal, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medal 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 medal produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.