Hidden inside idioms sit idioms and iodism, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
idioms and iodism tie for the highest Scrabble score from idioms at 9 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in idioms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and idioms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idioms and iodism, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idioms. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idiom, imido, imids, midis, and misdo, 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 idioms produces 8 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dims, doms, imid, midi, mids, modi, and mods, 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 idioms turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dom, mid, and mod — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idioms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 idioms 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.
idioms 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 four senses for idioms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
idioms is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing idioms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are idioms and iodism, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from idioms 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 idioms produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.