Hidden inside extides is one standout: existed, a seven-letter play worth 15 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
EXTIDES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXISTED (verb, form of exist), to be, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
existed is the highest-scoring word from extides, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling extides produces exactly one seven-letter word: existed. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extides turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deixes, dexies, exited, and sexted, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, edits, exist, and exits. For points, the strongest plays are desex, dexes, dexie, and sexed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extides produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and edit. For points, the strongest play is exed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extides turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and its. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in extides and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is existed, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extides 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 extides produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.