maledict needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 250 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maledict is the highest-scoring word from maledict, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 250 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in maledict — and it is maledict itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maledict produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claimed and medical. For points, the strongest plays are camelid, claimed, decimal, declaim, and medical — 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 maledict turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calmed, detail, and mailed. For points, the strongest plays are calmed and macled — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maledict. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, admit, aimed, camel, claim, dealt, and email. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each 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 maledict produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, calm, came, date, deal, deli, and dial. For points, the strongest plays are acme, calm, came, cami, clam, emic, mace, mica, and mice — each 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 maledict turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, aim, ate, cat, die, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maledict. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, id, it, and me. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in maledict plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maledict 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.
maledict 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 3-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 maledict. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
maledict is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maledict unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maledict, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maledict 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 maledict produce 250 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.