Hidden inside mediates sit mediates and sidemeat, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mediates and sidemeat tie for the highest Scrabble score from mediates at 11 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mediates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mediates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mediates and sidemeat, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mediates produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steamed. For points, the strongest plays are diastem, mediate, misdate, and steamed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mediates turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are adeems, admits, amides, amidst, demast, demies, demise, demist, demits, edemas, itemed, masted, meated, mediae, medias, misted, seamed, and teamed — 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 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aside, dates, diets, dimes, and eased. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admit, aimed, amide, amids, dames, deems, deism, demes, demit, dimes, disme, edema, maids, mated, meads, media, meeds, meted, midst, tamed, and timed — 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 mediates produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, date, dies, diet, dime, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, dams, deem, deme, dime, dims, idem, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, meed, and mids — 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 mediates turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, ate, die, eat, and ids. 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, id, is, and it. 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 mediates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mediates 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for mediates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mediates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mediates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mediates and sidemeat, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mediates 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 mediates produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.