Hidden inside guilders sit guilders and sludgier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 254 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guilders and sludgier tie for the highest Scrabble score from guilders at 10 points. The top 10 of 254 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in guilders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and guilders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are guilders and sludgier, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in guilders produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gilders, girdles, gliders, guiders, guilder, gurdies, regilds, and ridgels, 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 guilders turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guides and uglier. For points, the strongest plays are dirges, gilder, girdle, glider, glides, grides, guider, guides, guilds, guiled, guised, regild, ridgel, ridges, sludge, 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 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guilders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dries, drugs, girls, glues, guide, and lured. For points, the strongest plays are dirge, dregs, drugs, gelds, gelid, gilds, girds, gleds, glide, glued, gride, grids, gudes, guide, guids, guild, luged, 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 guilders produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, digs, drug, girl, glue, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are digs, dreg, drug, dugs, geds, geld, gids, gied, gild, gird, gled, 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 guilders turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, due, dug, ids, led, and leg. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guilders. 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 guilders and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
guilders 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for guilders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
guilders is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guilders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guilders and sludgier, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from guilders 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 guilders produce 254 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.