Hidden inside aside sit aides, aside, and ideas, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aides, aside, and ideas tie for the highest Scrabble score from aside at 6 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in aside: two come from rearranging its letters, and aside itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside and ideas. For points, the strongest plays are aides, aside, and ideas — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aside produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, dies and idea. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including aids, dies and idea.
26 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in aside plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aside and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
aside 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 aside carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for aside. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
aside is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aside unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aides, aside, and ideas, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aside 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 aside produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.