alongside needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 662 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alongside is the highest-scoring word from alongside, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 662 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in alongside — and it is alongside itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alongside. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agonised, dealigns, dealings, diagnose, donegals, leadings, loadings, sidelong, signaled, and sloganed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alongside produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing, denials, leading, loading, and sealing. For points, the strongest plays are aligned, dangles, dealign, dealing, dialogs, dingles, dingoes, donegal, dongles, engilds, ganoids, geoidal, glandes, glenoid, ladings, lagends, leading, ligands, loading, singled, and slanged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alongside turns up 112 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angles, denial, design, easing, and gained. For points, the strongest plays are algoid, angled, dangle, deigns, design, dialog, dinges, dingle, dingos, dogies, doings, doling, dongas, dongle, dosage, dosing, engild, gained, ganoid, gaoled, geoids, glades, glands, glides, goaled, golden, gonads, lading, lagend, ligand, lodges, longed, seadog, signed, and singed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 166 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alongside. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, alone, along, angel, angle, and aside. For points, the strongest plays are algid, dangs, degas, deign, dinge, dingo, dings, doges, dogie, doing, donga, dongs, egads, gadis, galed, gelds, gelid, geoid, gilds, glade, glads, gland, gleds, glide, goads, golds, gonad, lodge, and ogled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alongside produces 202 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, aids, also, deal, deli, and dial. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, digs, ding, doge, dogs, dong, egad, gadi, gads, gaed, geds, geld, gids, gied, gild, glad, gled, goad, gods, and gold — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alongside turns up 99 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, ago, aid, and, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, dog, gad, ged, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alongside. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, do, ed, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in alongside plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alongside and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
alongside 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for alongside. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
alongside is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alongside unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alongside, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alongside 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 alongside produce 662 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 112 six-letter words, 166 five-letter words, 202 four-letter words, 99 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.