Hidden inside lidder sit dirled, dreidl, and riddle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LIDDER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DIRLED, DREIDL and RIDDLE.
dirled, dreidl, and riddle tie for the highest Scrabble score from lidder at 8 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling lidder turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirled, dreidl, and riddle, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lidder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dried. For points, the strongest plays are dried, idled, and redid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lidder produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, died, lied, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are died and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lidder turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, led, lid, lie, red, and rid. For points, the strongest play is did — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
15 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lidder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lidder 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dirled, dreidl, and riddle, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lidder 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 lidder produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.