Hidden inside abided sit abided and baddie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abided and baddie tie for the highest Scrabble score from abided at 10 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in abided: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abided itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abided and baddie, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abided. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bedad and bided, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abided produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, dead, died, and idea. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bead, and bide — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abided turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid, bad, bed, bid, dad, and did. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, dab, deb, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abided. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, and id. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in abided 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.
abided 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
abided is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abided unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abided and baddie, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abided 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 abided produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.