20 words come out when you unscramble DIET, starting with DIET itself: 5 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. DIET has 4 anagrams here, DITE, EDIT, TIDE and TIED, scoring 5 like DIET itself. The best shorter words score 4: 6 of them, DIE, DIT and DEI included. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Counting the words from DIET by length: 5 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of DIET but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with DI · ending in ET · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to DIET:
The meaning of DIET, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. DIET is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIET itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 20) | 16 | 20 | 15 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
4 of the 20 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DEI, IDE, TID and DI. 1 of the 20 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: TE.
These 12 words take every letter of DIET plus a single extra one.