Hidden inside hired sit hider and hired, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hider and hired tie for the highest Scrabble score from hired at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hired: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hired itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hired. For points, the strongest plays are hider and hired — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hired produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hide, hire, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are herd, hide, and hied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hired turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, her, hid, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are edh and hid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hired. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and id. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 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 hired 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.
hired 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 two senses for hired. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
hired is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hired unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hider and hired, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hired 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 hired produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.