Hidden inside asides sit asides, daises, and dassie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asides, daises, and dassie tie for the highest Scrabble score from asides at 7 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in asides: two come from rearranging its letters, and asides 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 asides, daises, and dassie, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, ideas, and sides. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including aside, ideas and sides.
Rearranging the letters in asides produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, dies and idea. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including aids, dies and idea.
12 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in asides plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in asides 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.
asides 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 asides carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for asides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
asides is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asides, daises, and dassie, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from asides 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 asides produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.