Hidden inside midterm sit midterm and trimmed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
midterm and trimmed tie for the highest Scrabble score from midterm at 12 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in midterm: one comes from rearranging its letters, and midterm itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trimmed. For points, the strongest plays are midterm and trimmed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling midterm turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dimmer and rimmed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midterm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tired and tried. For points, the strongest play is mimed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in midterm produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dime, dirt, edit, item, ride, and term. For points, the strongest play is mime — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling midterm turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, met, red, rid, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midterm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, it, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in midterm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in midterm 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.
midterm 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 three senses for midterm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
midterm is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing midterm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are midterm and trimmed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from midterm 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 midterm produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.