Hidden inside maids sit amids and maids, five-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.
amids and maids tie for the highest Scrabble score from maids at 8 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in maids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maids itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maids. For points, the strongest plays are amids and maids — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maids produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, maid, and said. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dams, dims, mads, maid, and mids — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maids turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, ids, mad, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 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 maids 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.
maids is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for maids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
maids is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amids and maids, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maids 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 maids produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.