Hidden inside abides sit abides and biased, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abides and biased tie for the highest Scrabble score from abides at 9 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in abides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abides 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 abides and biased, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, based, and ideas. For points, the strongest plays are abide, based, beads, bides, and sabed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abides produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, bade, base, beds, bids, dibs, and dies. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bead, beds, bide, bids, dabs, debs, and dibs — 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 abides turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, bad, bed, bid, die, and ids. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, be, id, and is. 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 abides 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.
abides 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for abides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
abides is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abides and biased, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abides 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 abides produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.