medallist needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 499 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
medallist is the highest-scoring word from medallist, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 499 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in medallist — and it is medallist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medallist. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are medalist and misdealt, 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 medallist produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details, mildest, and stalled. For points, the strongest plays are diastem, 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 medallist turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, detail, emails, ladies, lamest, lasted, and listed. For points, the strongest plays are admits, amides, amidst, damsel, demast, demist, demits, dismal, lameds, mailed, malled, malted, masted, medals, medial, medias, milled, milted, misled, misted, 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 135 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medallist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aisle, aside, dates, deals, and dealt. For points, the strongest plays are admit, aimed, amide, amids, dames, deism, demit, dimes, disme, lamed, limed, maids, mated, meads, medal, media, melds, midst, milds, tamed, 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 medallist 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 medallist turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, all, 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 medallist. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in medallist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in medallist 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.
medallist 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 3-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 medallist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
medallist is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medallist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is medallist, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from medallist 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 medallist produce 499 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 135 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.