Hidden inside iodides sit iodides and iodised, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
iodides and iodised tie for the highest Scrabble score from iodides at 9 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in iodides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and iodides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are iodides and iodised, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling iodides turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are didies, didoes, diodes and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in iodides. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are didie, didos, diode and 3 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in iodides produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with died, dies and does. For points, the strongest plays are dido, died, eddo, and odds — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling iodides turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, ids, and odd. For points, the strongest plays are did and odd — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in iodides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, and so. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in iodides plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in iodides and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
iodides 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 iodides carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for iodides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
iodides is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing iodides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are iodides and iodised, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from iodides 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 iodides produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.