Hidden inside carried sit acrider and carried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
acrider and carried tie for the highest Scrabble score from carried at 10 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in carried: one comes from rearranging its letters, and carried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carried. For points, the strongest plays are acrider and carried — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carried turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carder and caried, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, cared, cried, drier, and raced. For points, the strongest plays are acred, acrid, arced, cadre, caird, cared, cedar, cider, cried, daric, dicer, raced, and riced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in carried produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card, care, dare, dear, dice, and idea. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, caid, card, cedi, cred, dace, dice, and iced — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carried turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, car, die, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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 carried 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.
carried 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
carried is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are acrider and carried, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carried 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 carried produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.