mediocre needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mediocre is the highest-scoring word from mediocre, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mediocre — and it is mediocre itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mediocre produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dormice, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mediocre turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dermic and medico, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediocre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried and crime. For points, the strongest plays are demic, domic, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mediocre produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, come and cord. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including come, mice and corm.
Unscrambling mediocre turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice and red. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediocre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, me, and or. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
Swap a single tile in mediocre 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.
mediocre 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 three senses for mediocre. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
mediocre is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mediocre unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mediocre, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mediocre 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 mediocre produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.