Hidden inside guiders sit guiders and gurdies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guiders and gurdies tie for the highest Scrabble score from guiders at 9 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in guiders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and guiders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are guiders and gurdies, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling guiders turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guides. For points, the strongest plays are dirges, grides, guider, guides, guised, ridges, and surged — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dries, drugs, guide, rides, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are dirge, dregs, drugs, girds, gride, grids, gudes, guide, guids, ridge, and urged — 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 guiders produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, drug, ride, rids, rigs, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are digs, dreg, drug, dugs, geds, gids, gied, gird, grid, gude, and guid — 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 guiders turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, due, dug, ids, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dug, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and us. 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 guiders 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.
guiders 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
guiders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guiders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guiders and gurdies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from guiders 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 guiders produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.