Hidden inside midas 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.
MIDAS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AMIDS and MAIDS.
amids and maids tie for the highest Scrabble score from midas 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 that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midas. 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.
Rearranging the letters in midas produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, maid, and said. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including maid, amid and dams.
Unscrambling midas turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in midas 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amids and maids, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from midas 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 midas 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.