Hidden inside chider sit chider, dreich, and herdic, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chider, dreich, and herdic tie for the highest Scrabble score from chider at 12 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in chider: two come from rearranging its letters, and chider 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 chider, dreich, and herdic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried and hired. For points, the strongest play is chide — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chider produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dice, hide, hire, rice, rich, and ride. For points, the strongest play is chid — 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 chider turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, her, hid, ice, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and id. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 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 chider 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.
chider 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 chider carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
chider is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chider, dreich, and herdic, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chider 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 chider produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.