raiders needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DRARISE, SRAIDER or REDSAIR and you get the same 7 letters as RAIDERS: so the words from RAIDERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
raiders is the highest-scoring word from raiders, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in raiders — and it is raiders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raiders turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raised. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including raised, aiders and arider.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including aired, aside and dares.
Rearranging the letters in raiders produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and dare. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including aids, dare and dear.
Unscrambling raiders turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in raiders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raiders 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.
raiders 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 raiders carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for raiders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
raiders is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raiders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is raiders, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from raiders 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 raiders produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 17 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.