Hidden inside lida sit dial and laid, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LIDA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DIAL and LAID.
dial and laid tie for the highest Scrabble score from lida at 5 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in lida produces 2 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: dial and laid, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in lida and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dial and laid, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lida 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 lida produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.