Hidden inside drier sit direr, drier, and rider, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
direr, drier, and rider tie for the highest Scrabble score from drier at 6 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in drier: two come from rearranging its letters, and drier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier. For points, the strongest plays are direr, drier, and rider — 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 drier produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ride. For points, the strongest plays are dire, ired, and ride — 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 drier turns up 6 three-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: die, red, and rid, worth 4 points apiece 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 drier. 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 drier 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.
drier 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 drier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for drier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
drier is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are direr, drier, and rider, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drier 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 drier produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.