Hidden inside dirties sit dirties, ditsier, and tidiers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dirties, ditsier, and tidiers tie for the highest Scrabble score from dirties at 8 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in dirties: two come from rearranging its letters, and dirties itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirties, ditsier, and tidiers, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dirties turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest. For points, the strongest plays are direst, driest, irides, irised, stride, teiids, tidier, and tidies — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dirties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dries, edits, rides, tired, tires, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dirts, dites, drest, dries, edits, irids, resid, rides, sired, sited, stied, teiid, tides, tired, and tried — 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 dirties produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dirt, edit, rest, ride, and rids. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dits, edit, ides, ired, irid, reds, ride, rids, side, teds, tide, and tied — 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 dirties turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, red, rid, set, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, eds, ids, red, rid, and ted — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dirties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — 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 dirties and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dirties 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 dirties carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for dirties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
dirties is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dirties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dirties, ditsier, and tidiers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dirties 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 dirties produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.