Hidden inside lidged sit gilded and glided, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LIDGED isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GILDED and GLIDED.
gilded and glided tie for the highest Scrabble score from lidged at 9 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling lidged turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gilded and glided, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lidged. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelid, glide, and idled, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lidged produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, died, and lied. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including died, geld and gied.
Unscrambling lidged turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and dig. For points, the strongest plays are did, dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lidged plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lidged 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 gilded and glided, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lidged 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 lidged produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.