Hidden inside grider is one standout: girder, a six-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GRIDER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GIRDER (noun), a horizontal support, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
girder is the highest-scoring word from grider, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling grider produces exactly one six-letter word: girder. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier. For points, the strongest plays are dirge, gride, and ridge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grider produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ride. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, gied, gird, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grider turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and red. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in grider 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is girder, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from grider 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 grider produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.