Hidden inside hillsides sit hillsides and sidehills, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hillsides and sidehills tie for the highest Scrabble score from hillsides at 13 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in hillsides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hillsides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hillsides and sidehills, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hillsides. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hillside and sidehill, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hillsides produces 5 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 shields and shilled, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hillsides turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dishes, shells, and slides. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including dishes, delish and deshis.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hillsides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, hides and hills. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hides, deshi and sheds.
Rearranging the letters in hillsides produces 44 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 hillsides turns up 24 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 hillsides. 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.
Swap a single tile in hillsides and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
hillsides 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 one sense for hillsides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hillsides is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hillsides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hillsides and sidehills, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hillsides 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 hillsides produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.