Hidden inside median sit aidmen, daimen, maiden and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aidmen, daimen, maiden and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from median at 9 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in median: four come from rearranging its letters, and median itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maiden. For points, the strongest plays are aidmen, daimen, maiden, median, and medina — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in median. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, media, and named. For points, the strongest plays are admen, admin, aimed, amend, amide, denim, maned, media, menad, mined, and named — 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 median produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn, dime, dine, idea, made, and maid. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, damn, dime, idem, made, maid, mead, mend, and mind — 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 median turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, and, die, end, mad, and man. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in median. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, id, in, 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 median 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.
median 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 four senses for median. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
median is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing median unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aidmen, daimen, maiden, median, and medina, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from median 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 median produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.