iodide needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
iodide is the highest-scoring word from iodide, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in iodide — and it is iodide itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in iodide. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are didie, diode, and iodid, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in iodide plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in iodide 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.
iodide 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 iodide carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for iodide. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
iodide is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing iodide unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is iodide, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from iodide 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 iodide produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.