Hidden inside medallions sit medaillons and medallions, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 792 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
medaillons and medallions tie for the highest Scrabble score from medallions at 13 points. The top 10 of 792 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in medallions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medallions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are medaillons and medallions, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling medallions turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are medaillon, medallion, and melanoids, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medallions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amidones, daimones, domaines and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in medallions produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denials and maidens. For points, 26 words tie at 10 points, including maidens, almonds and amidols.
Unscrambling medallions turns up 143 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, demons and denial. For points, 48 words tie at 9 points, including demons, maiden and mailed.
There are 215 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medallions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ideal, ideas and lands. For points, 41 words tie at 8 points, including maids, medal and media.
Rearranging the letters in medallions produces 232 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and also. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and mild.
Unscrambling medallions turns up 104 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medallions. 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.
medallions 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 medallions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
medallions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medallions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are medaillons and medallions, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medallions 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 medallions produce 792 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 143 six-letter words, 215 five-letter words, 232 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.