Hidden inside lodries sit soldier and solider, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LODRIES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SOLDIER and SOLIDER.
soldier and solider tie for the highest Scrabble score from lodries at 8 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in lodries produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soldier. For points, the strongest plays are soldier and solider — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lodries turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dories, dorsel, idlers and 8 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dries and lords. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including delis, dries and lords.
Rearranging the letters in lodries produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and does. For points, 43 words tie at 5 points, including deli, dies and does.
Unscrambling lodries turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and led. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including die, ids and led.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lodries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lodries and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are soldier and solider, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lodries 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 lodries produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.