Hidden inside idlers sit idlers, sidler, and slider, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
idlers, sidler, and slider tie for the highest Scrabble score from idlers at 7 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in idlers: two come from rearranging its letters, and idlers 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 idlers, sidler, and slider, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dries, rides, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, delis, dirls, dries, idler, idles, isled, resid, rides, riled, sidle, sired, 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 idlers produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, lids, lied, lies, ride, and rids. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, desi, diel, dies, dire, dirl, elds, ides, idle, ired, lids, lied, reds, ride, rids, 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 idlers turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, eds, eld, ids, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idlers. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in idlers 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.
idlers 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 idlers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
idlers is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing idlers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are idlers, sidler, and slider, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from idlers 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 idlers produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.