Hidden inside idler sit idler and riled, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
idler and riled tie for the highest Scrabble score from idler at 6 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in idler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and idler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idler and riled, 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 idler produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, lied, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, idle, ired, lied, and ride — 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 idler turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, led, lid, lie, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, eld, led, lid, red, and rid — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id. For points, the strongest plays are 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 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in idler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in idler 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.
idler 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 one sense for idler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
idler is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing idler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are idler and riled, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from idler 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 idler produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.