Hidden inside elides sit diesel, ediles, elides and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diesel, ediles, elides and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from elides at 7 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in elides: four come from rearranging its letters, and elides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diesel, ediles, elides, sedile, and seidel, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, deles, delis, edile, elide, idles, isled, ledes, sidle, and slide — 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 elides produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, else, lids, lied, lies, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are dees, deil, dele, deli, dels, desi, diel, dies, eide, elds, ides, idle, lede, lids, lied, seed, side, sild, sled, and slid — 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 elides turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, die, dis, eds, eld, ids, led, and lid — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. 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 elides 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.
elides 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 elides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
elides is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diesel, ediles, elides, sedile, and seidel, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elides 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 elides produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.