Hidden inside elaterids sit detailers and elaterids, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 744 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detailers and elaterids tie for the highest Scrabble score from elaterids at 10 points. The top 10 of 744 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in elaterids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and elaterids itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detailers and elaterids, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elaterids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest, readiest, and steadier. For points, the strongest plays are desalter, detailer, dilaters, elaterid, lardiest, leadiest, readiest, realised, redtails, relisted, resailed, reslated, retailed, seriated, sidereal, steadier, and treadles — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in elaterids produces 60 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered, dealers, dearest, details, leaders, related, and relates. For points, the strongest plays are aediles, alerted, altered, aridest, astride, dartles, dealers, dearest, dearies, delates, derails, derates, details, dialers, diaster, diester, dieters, dilater, dilates, disrate, ideates, isleted, lasered, leaders, leadier, readies, redates, redials, redtail, reedits, related, resiled, resited, retiled, sedater, staider, tardies, tasered, tirades, trailed, treadle, and trialed — 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 elaterids turns up 155 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, dealer, desert, desire, detail, and driest. For points, the strongest plays are aedile, aeried, aiders, airted, aisled, alders, ariled, dartle, daters, deairs, dealer, dearie, deasil, delate, delist, deltas, derail, derate, derats, desalt, desert, desire, detail, deters, dialer, diesel, dieter, dilate, direst, distal, drails, driest, ediles, eiders, elated, elders, eldest, elides, erased, ideals, ideate, idlers, idlest, irades, laders, ladies, lairds, laired, lasted, leader, leased, liards, lidars, lieder, listed, railed, raised, redate, rediae, redial, redias, reedit, relaid, relied, resaid, reseda, reside, rested, retied, sailed, salted, sealed, seared, seated, sedate, sedile, seidel, sidler, silted, slated, slider, staled, stared, stride, tailed, teared, teased, tiered, tildes, tirade, tirled, trades, treads, and triads — 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 209 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elaterids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aisle, alert, alter, aside, dares, and dates. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aedes, aider, aides, ailed, aired, alder, aside, dales, dares, darts, dater, dates, deair, deals, dealt, dears, deers, deets, deils, deist, deles, delis, delta, delts, derat, deter, dials, diets, dirls, dirts, ditas, dites, drail, drats, drees, drest, dries, eared, eased, edile, edits, eider, elder, elide, ideal, ideas, idler, idles, irade, isled, lader, lades, laird, lards, lased, lated, leads, ledes, liard, lidar, raids, rased, rated, reads, redes, redia, reeds, resid, rides, riled, sated, seder, sered, sidle, sired, sited, slide, stade, staid, stead, steed, stied, tared, tased, tidal, tides, tilde, tiled, tired, trade, trads, tread, treed, triad, tried, tsade, and tsadi — 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 elaterids produces 189 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, arts, lads, laid, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, arid, lade, lads, laid, lard, lead, lede, lids, lied, rads, raid, read, rede, reds, reed, ride, rids, sade, sadi, said, sard, seed, side, sild, sled, slid, dais, dale, dals, dare, dart, date, deal, dear, deer, dees, deet, deil, dele, deli, dels, delt, dere, desi, dial, diel, dies, diet, dire, dirl, dirt, dita, dite, dits, drat, dree, edit, eide, elds, idea, ides, idle, ired, tads, teds, teed, tide, tied, and trad — 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 elaterids turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, dal, das, dee, del, die, dis, dit, eds, eld, ids, lad, led, lid, rad, red, rid, sad, tad, 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elaterids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
14 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in elaterids plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in elaterids and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
elaterids 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 elaterids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
elaterids is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elaterids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detailers and elaterids, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elaterids 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 elaterids produce 744 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 60 seven-letter words, 155 six-letter words, 209 five-letter words, 189 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.