dis and ids tie for the highest Scrabble score from ids at 4 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in ids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ids itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids. For points, the strongest plays are dis and ids — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest play is id — 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 ids and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
ids 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in ids carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for ids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 4 points on a Scrabble board:
ids is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dis and ids, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ids 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 ids produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.