Hidden inside aroids sit aroids and radios, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aroids and radios tie for the highest Scrabble score from aroids at 7 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in aroids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aroids itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with radios. For points, the strongest plays are aroids and radios — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aroids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with radio and roads. For points, the strongest plays are adios, aroid, dorsa, dosai, radio, raids, roads, roids, and sarod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aroids produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, rids, road, rods, said, and soda. For points, the strongest plays are ados, aids, arid, dais, dors, dosa, odas, orad, rads, raid, rids, road, rods, roid, sadi, said, sard, soda, and sord — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aroids turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, ids, rid, rod, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, aid, das, dis, dor, dos, ids, oda, ods, rad, rid, rod, sad, and sod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aroids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, id, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, 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.
Swap a single tile in aroids 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.
aroids 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in aroids carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for aroids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
aroids is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aroids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aroids and radios, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aroids 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 aroids produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.