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Unscramble MEDALS: 89 words from the letters M E D A L S

MEDALS is an anagram of DAMSEL and LAMEDS. The letters make 89 words in total, 60 of them common.

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6-letter words using every letter (3)

Shorter words from MEDALS

4-letter words (34)

  • made7 points
  • same6 points
  • deal5 points
  • lead5 points
  • sale4 points
  • male6 points
  • meal6 points
  • seal4 points
  • dame7 points
  • dams7 points
  • mads7 points
  • alms6 points
  • elms6 points
  • lame6 points
  • seam6 points
  • slam6 points
  • lade5 points
  • lads5 points
  • sled5 points
  • ales4 points
  • meld7 points
  • mead7 points
  • lams6 points
  • mesa6 points
  • dale5 points
  • leas4 points
  • lase4 points
  • alme6 points
  • maes6 points
  • mels6 points
  • dals5 points
  • dels5 points
  • elds5 points
  • sade5 points

5-letter words (14)

  • deals6 points
  • leads6 points
  • males7 points
  • meals7 points
  • dames8 points
  • lamed8 points
  • medal8 points
  • lames7 points
  • lades6 points
  • melds8 points
  • dales6 points
  • meads8 points
  • almes7 points
  • lased6 points

3-letter words (25)

  • mad6 points
  • led4 points
  • sad4 points
  • lad4 points
  • sea3 points
  • dam6 points
  • elm5 points
  • mas5 points
  • ads4 points
  • ale3 points
  • ems5 points
  • lam5 points
  • lea3 points
  • mel5 points
  • eld4 points
  • els3 points
  • sal3 points
  • med6 points
  • mae5 points
  • dal4 points
  • del4 points
  • als3 points
  • las3 points
  • sae3 points
  • sel3 points

2-letter words (13)

  • am4 points
  • me4 points
  • as2 points
  • em4 points
  • ma4 points
  • ad3 points
  • es2 points
  • la2 points
  • de3 points
  • ed3 points
  • ae2 points
  • al2 points
  • el2 points

Quick facts

  • Total words: 89
  • By usage: 47 very common, 13 common, 29 rare

Highest scoring (classic tiles)

  1. damsel 9
  2. lameds 9
  3. medals 9
  4. dames 8
  5. lamed 8
  6. meads 8
  7. medal 8
  8. melds 8
  9. almes 7
  10. dame 7

Most common

  1. made
  2. deals
  3. leads
  4. mad
  5. same
  6. deal
  7. lead
  8. am
  9. led
  10. me

Definitions

damsel (noun)
A young unmarried woman.

From the six or seven tiles of MEDALS you can form 89 words. This page is the complete answer, computed against our full dictionary rather than a hand-picked selection: every exact anagram, every shorter word, and the score for each. Words such as MADE and DEALS are the familiar ones; further down are rarer entries that are still valid in most games. Definitions for the most useful words follow the list.

How to use this page

Start at the top for the longest and highest-scoring words, work down for shorter plays, and use the search box to test variations with a blank or a different letter.

Tips

If you already know a few letters of the answer and their positions, the word finder is faster than reading this list. Enter a pattern with question marks for the unknown letters and only the fitting words appear. For a daily five-letter puzzle the five-letter finder does the same thing with cues for known, misplaced and excluded letters. Both tools share the dictionary used on this page, so the answers always agree with the lists you find here, whichever route you take.

Questions

How many words can you make from MEDALS?

89 words, using our dictionary. 2 of them use every letter and the rest are shorter words formed from some of the tiles. Every one of them is listed on this page.

What is the highest-scoring word from the letters of MEDALS?

DAMSEL, at 9 points with classic tile values. That ignores board multipliers, so check where each candidate would land before choosing.