Hidden inside peridot sit diopter, dioptre, peridot and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diopter, dioptre, peridot and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from peridot at 10 points. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in peridot: three come from rearranging its letters, and peridot itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diopter, dioptre, peridot, and proteid, 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 peridot turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editor and period. For points, the strongest plays are deport, dopier, period, podite, ported, redipt, redtop, torpid, trepid, and tripod — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peridot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pride, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are depot, doper, dript, dropt, opted, pedro, pored, pride, pried, redip, riped, roped, tepid, and toped — 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 peridot produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dirt, drip, drop, edit, poet, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are dipt, dope, dorp, drip, drop, oped, pedi, pied, and prod — 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 peridot turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, dot, per, pet, pie, and pit. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, ped, and pod — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peridot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, it, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — 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 peridot 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.
peridot 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for peridot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
peridot is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peridot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diopter, dioptre, peridot, and proteid, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from peridot 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 peridot produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.