Hidden inside diseases sit diseases and seasides, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diseases and seasides tie for the highest Scrabble score from diseases at 9 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diseases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diseases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diseases. For points, the strongest plays are diseases and seasides — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diseases produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with disease. For points, the strongest plays are dassies, disease, and seaside — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diseases turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asides, daises, dassie and 4 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diseases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, asses and eased. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including aside, eased and ideas.
Rearranging the letters in diseases produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, dies and ease. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including aids, dies and idea.
Unscrambling diseases turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ass. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diseases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
Swap a single tile in diseases 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.
diseases 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in diseases carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for diseases. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
diseases is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diseases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diseases and seasides, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diseases 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 diseases produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.