Hidden inside medial sit mailed and medial, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mailed and medial tie for the highest Scrabble score from medial at 9 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in medial: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medial itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mailed. For points, the strongest plays are mailed and medial — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, email, ideal, medal, and media. For points, the strongest plays are aimed, amide, lamed, limed, medal, and media — 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 medial produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, deli, dial, dime, idea, laid, and lame. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, dime, idem, made, maid, mead, meld, and mild — 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 medial turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, die, lad, led, lid, and lie. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, id, and me. 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.
Swap a single tile in medial 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.
medial 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 medial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
medial is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mailed and medial, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medial 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 medial produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.