Hidden inside dried sit dried and redid, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dried and redid tie for the highest Scrabble score from dried at 7 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in dried: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dried. For points, the strongest plays are dried and redid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dried produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with died and ride. For points, the strongest plays are died and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dried turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, red, and rid. For points, the strongest play is did — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id. 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 dried and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
dried 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 dried carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for dried. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
dried is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dried and redid, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dried 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 dried produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.