mediocrity needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 307 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mediocrity is the highest-scoring word from mediocrity, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 307 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in mediocrity — and it is mediocrity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediocrity. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dimetric and morticed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mediocrity produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demotic, dimeric, and dormice, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mediocrity turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comedy, credit and direct. For points, the strongest plays are comedy and cymoid — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediocrity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, crime and dirty. For points, the strongest play is mercy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mediocrity produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, code and come. For points, the strongest play is cyme — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mediocrity turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, die and dot. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mediocrity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and it. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
mediocrity 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 two senses for mediocrity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
mediocrity is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mediocrity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mediocrity, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mediocrity 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 mediocrity produce 307 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.