Hidden inside grides sit dirges, grides, and ridges, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dirges, grides, and ridges tie for the highest Scrabble score from grides at 8 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in grides: two come from rearranging its letters, and grides 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 dirges, grides, and ridges, each worth 8 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 grides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dries and rides. For points, the strongest plays are dirge, dregs, girds, gride, grids, and ridge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grides produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, ride, rids, rigs, rise, and side. For points, the strongest plays are digs, dreg, geds, gids, gied, gird, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grides turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, ids, red, rid, rig, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, 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 grides 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.
grides 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.
grides is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dirges, grides, and ridges, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grides 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 grides produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.