Hidden inside maiden sit aidmen, daimen, maiden and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DMENAI, AEIDMN or IDEMAN and you get the same 6 letters as MAIDEN: so the words from MAIDEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
aidmen, daimen, maiden and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from maiden at 9 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in maiden: four come from rearranging its letters, and maiden itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maiden. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, aidmen and daimen.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maiden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, media, and named. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, media and named.
Rearranging the letters in maiden produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dime. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling maiden turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maiden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
11 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in maiden plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maiden and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
maiden 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 maiden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
maiden is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maiden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aidmen, daimen, maiden, median, and medina, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maiden 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 maiden produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.