Hidden inside lardiest sit dilaters, lardiest, and redtails, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 532 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dilaters, lardiest, and redtails tie for the highest Scrabble score from lardiest at 9 points. The top 10 of 532 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in lardiest: two come from rearranging its letters, and lardiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dilaters, lardiest, and redtails, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lardiest produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details and saltier. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including details, aridest and astride.
Unscrambling lardiest turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and detail. For points, 55 words tie at 7 points, including detail, driest and ladies.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lardiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aisle and alert. For points, 79 words tie at 6 points, including aired, aside and dares.
Rearranging the letters in lardiest produces 160 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and arts. For points, 60 words tie at 5 points, including aids, lads and laid.
Unscrambling lardiest turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lardiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
11 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in lardiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lardiest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
lardiest 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.
lardiest is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lardiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dilaters, lardiest, and redtails, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lardiest 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 lardiest produce 532 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 160 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.