Hidden inside imido sit idiom and imido, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
idiom and imido tie for the highest Scrabble score from imido at 8 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in imido: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imido 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 idiom and imido, 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 imido produces 3 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 imid, midi, and modi, 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 imido turns up 5 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imido. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and id. 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 imido 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.
imido 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.
imido is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imido unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are idiom and imido, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imido 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 imido produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.