Hidden inside pride sit pride, pried, redip and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DIRPE, EDPIR or IDPRE and you get the same 5 letters as PRIDE: so the words from PRIDE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
pride, pried, redip and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pride at 8 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in pride: three come from rearranging its letters, and pride itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pride. For points, the strongest plays are pride, pried, redip, and riped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pride produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drip and ride. For points, the strongest plays are drip, pedi, and pied — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pride turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and per. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
24 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in pride plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pride 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.
pride 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 six senses for pride. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
pride is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pride unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pride, pried, redip, and riped, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pride 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 pride produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.