Hidden inside medaling sit maligned and medaling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 284 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maligned and medaling tie for the highest Scrabble score from medaling at 12 points. The top 10 of 284 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in medaling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medaling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maligned and medaling, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in medaling produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing, leading, and mingled. For points, the strongest plays are mangled, melding, and mingled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling medaling turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denial, gained, maiden, mailed, mingle, and nailed. For points, the strongest plays are degami, glimed, imaged, and midleg — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medaling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, alien, angel, angle, email, ideal, and image. For points, the strongest plays are gamed and midge — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in medaling produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, amen, damn, deal, deli, dial, and dime. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, damn, dime, game, glam, glim, idem, made, mage, magi, maid, mead, mega, meld, mend, mild, and mind — 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 medaling turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, aim, and, die, dig, and end. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, gam, gem, mad, mag, med, meg, mid, and mig — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medaling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, id, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in medaling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in medaling 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.
medaling 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.
medaling is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medaling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maligned and medaling, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medaling 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 medaling produce 284 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.