Hidden inside doilies sit doilies and idolise, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doilies and idolise tie for the highest Scrabble score from doilies at 8 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in doilies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and doilies 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 doilies and idolise, 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 doilies 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 iodise, oldies, siloed, soiled, and solidi, 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doilies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, slide, and solid. For points, the strongest plays are deils, delis, diols, doles, eidos, idles, idols, isled, lidos, lodes, loids, oiled, oldie, sidle, slide, sloid, soldi, soled, and solid — 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 doilies produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, does, lids, lied, lies, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, desi, diel, dies, diol, does, dole, dols, dose, elds, ides, idle, idol, lido, lids, lied, lode, loid, odes, olde, olds, side, sild, sled, slid, and sold — 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 doilies turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, oil, and old. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, doe, dol, dos, eds, eld, ids, led, lid, ode, ods, old, and sod — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doilies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — 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 doilies 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.
doilies 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for doilies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
doilies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doilies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doilies and idolise, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from doilies 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 doilies produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.