Hidden inside medusa sit amused and medusa, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amused and medusa tie for the highest Scrabble score from medusa at 9 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in medusa: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medusa itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amused. For points, the strongest plays are amused and medusa — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medusa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dames, dumas and mauds.
Rearranging the letters in medusa produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with made, muds and same. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including made, muds and dame.
Unscrambling medusa turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, due and mad. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, mud and dam.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medusa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in medusa plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in medusa and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
medusa 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 two senses for medusa. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
medusa is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medusa unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amused and medusa, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medusa 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 medusa produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.