Hidden inside amides sit amides and medias, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amides and medias tie for the highest Scrabble score from amides at 9 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in amides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amides 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 amides and medias, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aside and dimes. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, dimes and maids.
Rearranging the letters in amides produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and dies. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including dime, made and maid.
Unscrambling amides turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
18 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in amides plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amides 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.
amides 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 one sense for amides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
amides is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amides and medias, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amides 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 amides produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.