Hidden inside grids sit girds and grids, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
girds and grids tie for the highest Scrabble score from grids at 7 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in grids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grids itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are girds and grids, 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 grids produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, rids, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are digs, gids, 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 grids turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, ids, rid, rig, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are dig 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are 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 grids and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
grids 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 five senses for grids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
grids is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are girds and grids, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grids 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 grids produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.