Hidden inside aridus is one standout: radius, a six-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ARIDUS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RADIUS (noun), a straight line from the center of a circle to the circumference, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
radius is the highest-scoring word from aridus, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling aridus produces exactly one six-letter word: radius. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aridus. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duras, raids, and ursid, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aridus produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, rids, and said. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including aids, rids and said.
Unscrambling aridus turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and ids.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aridus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and id. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in aridus plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aridus 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is radius, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aridus 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 aridus produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.