Hidden inside megadynes sit ganymedes and megadynes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 299 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ganymedes and megadynes tie for the highest Scrabble score from megadynes at 16 points. The top 10 of 299 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in megadynes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and megadynes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ganymedes and megadynes, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megadynes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ganymede and megadyne, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in megadynes produces 7 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 daysmen, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling megadynes turns up 23 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emydes and mangey, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megadynes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, eased and edges. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including emyde, emyds and gamey.
Rearranging the letters in megadynes produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and amen. For points, the strongest plays are demy, emyd, gamy, and gyms — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling megadynes turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and and. For points, the strongest play is gym — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megadynes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in megadynes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
megadynes 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.
megadynes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing megadynes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ganymedes and megadynes, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from megadynes 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 megadynes produce 299 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.