Hidden inside medians sit maidens, medians, medinas and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DEMAINS, ANSIDEM or DAMINES and you get the same 7 letters as MEDIANS: so the words from MEDIANS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
maidens, medians, medinas and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from medians at 10 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in medians: three come from rearranging its letters, and medians itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maidens. For points, the strongest plays are maidens, medians, medinas, and sideman — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling medians turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maiden. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, admins and aidmen.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aside and damns. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, damns and dimes.
Rearranging the letters in medians produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and amen. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling medians turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in medians plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in medians and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
medians 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 medians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
medians is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maidens, medians, medinas, and sideman, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medians 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 medians produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.