Hidden inside driest sit direst, driest, and stride, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
direst, driest, and stride tie for the highest Scrabble score from driest at 7 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in driest: two come from rearranging its letters, and driest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest. For points, the strongest plays are direst, driest, and stride — 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 driest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dries, edits, rides, tired, tires, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dirts, dites, drest, dries, edits, resid, rides, sired, sited, stied, tides, tired, and tried — 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 driest produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dirt, edit, rest, ride, and rids. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dits, edit, ides, ired, reds, ride, rids, side, teds, tide, and tied — 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 driest turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, red, rid, set, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, eds, ids, red, rid, and ted — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in driest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. 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.
38 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in driest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in driest 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.
driest 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 driest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
driest is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing driest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are direst, driest, and stride, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from driest 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 driest produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.