medlars needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
medlars is the highest-scoring word from medlars, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in medlars — and it is medlars itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling medlars turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dreams and medals. For points, the strongest plays are damsel, dermal, dermas, dreams, lameds, madres, marled, medals, and medlar — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medlars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dares, deals, dears, dream, lamer, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are armed, dames, derma, derms, drams, dream, lamed, madre, meads, medal, and melds — 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 medlars produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, dare, deal, dear, ears, eras, and lads. For points, the strongest plays are dame, dams, derm, dram, made, mads, mead, meds, and meld — 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 medlars turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, arm, ear, era, lad, and led. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — 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 medlars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — 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 medlars 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.
medlars 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 one sense for medlars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
medlars is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medlars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is medlars, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from medlars 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 medlars produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 12 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.