Hidden inside idlees sit diesel, ediles, elides and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
IDLEES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DIESEL, EDILES, ELIDES, SEDILE and SEIDEL.
diesel, ediles, elides and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from idlees at 7 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling idlees turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diesel, ediles, elides and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idlees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis and slide. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including delis, slide and deils.
Rearranging the letters in idlees produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and else. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including deli, dies and lids.
Unscrambling idlees turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and led. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including die, ids and led.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idlees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
19 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in idlees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in idlees 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diesel, ediles, elides, sedile, and seidel, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from idlees 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 idlees produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.