qadi and qaid tie for the highest Scrabble score from qadi at 14 points. The top 8 of 8 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in qadi: one comes from rearranging its letters, and qadi itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are qadi and qaid, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling qadi produces exactly one three-letter word: aid. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in qadi and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
qadi 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 qadi carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for qadi. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
qadi is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing qadi unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are qadi and qaid, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from qadi 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 qadi produce 8 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 1 three-letter word and 5 two-letter words.