Hidden inside drile sit idler and riled, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DRILE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to IDLER and RILED.
idler and riled tie for the highest Scrabble score from drile at 6 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drile. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idler and riled, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drile produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, lied, and ride. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including deli, lied and ride.
32 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in drile plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drile 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are idler and riled, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drile 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 drile produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.