Hidden inside mediad sit diadem and mediad, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diadem and mediad tie for the highest Scrabble score from mediad at 10 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in mediad: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mediad itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diadem and mediad, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediad. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed and media. For points, the strongest plays are aimed, amide, and media — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mediad produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dead, died and dime. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including dime, made and maid.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediad. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, id, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mediad plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mediad and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mediad 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
mediad is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mediad unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diadem and mediad, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mediad 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 mediad produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.