Hidden inside indies sit indies and inside, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indies and inside tie for the highest Scrabble score from indies at 7 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in indies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inside. For points, the strongest plays are indies and inside — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines. For points, the strongest plays are dines, indie, nides, and snide — 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 indies produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, ends, send, and side. For points, the strongest plays are deni, dens, desi, dies, dine, dins, ends, ides, nide, nidi, send, side, and sned — 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 indies turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are den, die, din, dis, eds, end, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, 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 indies 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.
indies 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.
indies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are indies and inside, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indies 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 indies produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.