mediaevals needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 440 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mediaevals is the highest-scoring word from mediaevals, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 440 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in mediaevals — and it is mediaevals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mediaevals turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mediaeval and medievals, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediaevals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is medieval, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mediaevals produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emailed. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including advisee, availed and devisal.
Unscrambling mediaevals turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, devils and emails. For points, the strongest play is mavies — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediaevals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aisle and alive. For points, the strongest plays are mavie and mavis — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mediaevals produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and lads. For points, the strongest play is vims — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mediaevals turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediaevals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
mediaevals 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 mediaevals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
mediaevals is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mediaevals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mediaevals, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mediaevals 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 mediaevals produce 440 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.