Hidden inside ideals sit aisled, deasil, ideals and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aisled, deasil, ideals and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ideals at 7 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in ideals: four come from rearranging its letters, and ideals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ladies and sailed. For points, the strongest plays are aisled, deasil, ideals, ladies, and sailed — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ideals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside, deals, delis, dials, ideal, and ideas. For points, the strongest plays are aides, ailed, aside, dales, deals, deils, delis, dials, ideal, ideas, idles, isled, lades, lased, leads, sidle, and slide — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ideals produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, deal, deli, dial, dies, idea, and lads. For points, the strongest plays are aide, aids, dais, dale, dals, deal, deil, deli, dels, desi, dial, diel, dies, elds, idea, ides, idle, lade, lads, laid, lead, lids, lied, sade, sadi, said, side, sild, sled, and slid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ideals turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, die, ids, lad, led, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, dal, das, del, die, dis, eds, eld, ids, lad, led, lid, and sad — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ideals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, 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.
32 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ideals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ideals 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.
ideals 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 five senses for ideals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ideals is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ideals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aisled, deasil, ideals, ladies, and sailed, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ideals 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 ideals produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.