Hidden inside ledes sit deles and ledes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deles and ledes tie for the highest Scrabble score from ledes at 6 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ledes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ledes 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 deles and ledes, 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 ledes produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else and seed. For points, the strongest plays are dees, dele, dels, elds, lede, seed, and sled — 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 ledes turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led and see. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, eds, eld, and led — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ledes. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, 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 ledes 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.
ledes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
ledes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ledes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deles and ledes, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ledes 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 ledes produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.