Hidden inside idiolects sit idiolects and solicited, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 348 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
idiolects and solicited tie for the highest Scrabble score from idiolects at 12 points. The top 10 of 348 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in idiolects: one comes from rearranging its letters, and idiolects 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 idiolects and solicited, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling idiolects produces exactly one eight-letter word: idiolect. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in idiolects produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coldest. For points, the strongest plays are cestoid, coedits, coldest, deistic, delicts, diciest, and eidolic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling idiolects turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, closed, closet, costed, idiots, listed, and oldest. For points, the strongest plays are cisted, citied, closed, coedit, coiled, cosied, costed, delict, deltic, dicots, docile, edicts, and sliced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idiolects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, codes, colds, delis, dices, diets, and disco. For points, the strongest plays are cedis, cited, clods, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coted, decos, dices, dicot, disci, disco, dolce, dolci, edict, iodic, scold, and sodic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in idiolects produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cold, cost, deli, dice, dies, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, clod, code, cods, coed, cold, deco, dice, disc, docs, iced, and odic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling idiolects turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, ice, ids, its, led, and let. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idiolects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in idiolects plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in idiolects 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.
idiolects 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 2-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 idiolects. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
idiolects is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing idiolects unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are idiolects and solicited, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from idiolects 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 idiolects produce 348 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 15 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.