Hidden inside medalist sit medalist and misdealt, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 432 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
medalist and misdealt tie for the highest Scrabble score from medalist at 11 points. The top 10 of 432 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in medalist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medalist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are medalist and misdealt, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in medalist produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details and mildest. For points, the strongest plays are diastem, malteds, medials, mildest, misdate, misdeal, and mislead — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling medalist turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, detail, emails, ladies, lamest, lasted, and listed. For points, the strongest plays are admits, amides, amidst, damsel, demast, demist, demits, dismal, lameds, mailed, malted, masted, medals, medial, medias, milted, misled, misted, slimed, and smiled — 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 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aisle, aside, dates, deals, and dealt. For points, the strongest plays are admit, aimed, amide, amids, dames, deism, demit, dimes, disme, lamed, limed, maids, mated, meads, medal, media, melds, midst, milds, tamed, and timed — 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 medalist produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, lads, laid, lame, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, meld, mids, mild, dame, dams, dime, dims, and idem — 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 medalist turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, ate, die, eat, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, med, and mid — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — 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 medalist 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.
medalist 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 medalist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
medalist is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medalist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are medalist and misdealt, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medalist 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 medalist produce 432 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.