Hidden inside medalists sit dismalest and medalists, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 568 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dismalest and medalists tie for the highest Scrabble score from medalists at 12 points. The top 10 of 568 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in medalists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medalists 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 dismalest and medalists, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medalists. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diastems, medalist, misdates, misdeals, misdealt, and misleads, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in medalists produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details and mildest. For points, the strongest plays are damsels, demasts, demists, diastem, dismals, dismast, malteds, medials, mildest, misdate, misdeal, and mislead — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling medalists turns up 99 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, aisles, detail, emails, ladies, lamest, and lasted. For points, the strongest plays are admits, amides, amidst, damsel, deisms, demast, demist, demits, dismal, dismes, lameds, mailed, malted, massed, masted, medals, medial, medias, midsts, milted, misled, missed, misted, sadism, slimed, and smiled — 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 162 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sails, sales, salts, seals, seats, sides, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are tamed, admit, aimed, amide, amids, dames, deism, demit, dimes, disme, lamed, limed, maids, mated, meads, medal, media, melds, midst, milds, and timed — 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 medalists produces 166 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, lads, laid, lame, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, meld, mids, mild, dame, dams, dime, dims, and idem — 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 medalists turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, ass, ate, die, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, med, and mid — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, id, is, and it. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in medalists plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in medalists 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.
medalists 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 medalists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
medalists is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medalists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dismalest and medalists, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medalists 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 medalists produce 568 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 99 six-letter words, 162 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.