Hidden inside hildes sit delish and shield, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
HILDES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DELISH and SHIELD.
delish and shield tie for the highest Scrabble score from hildes at 10 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling hildes turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delish and shield, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hildes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, hides, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deshi, hides, shied, and sidhe — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hildes produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and dish. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including dish, held and hide.
Unscrambling hildes turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid and his. For points, the strongest plays are edh and hid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hildes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in hildes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hildes 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 plays from these letters are delish and shield, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hildes 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 hildes produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.