Hidden inside raider sit arider and raider, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arider and raider tie for the highest Scrabble score from raider at 7 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in raider: one comes from rearranging its letters, and raider itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arider and raider, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired and drier. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, darer, deair, direr, drear, drier, irade, rared, redia, and rider — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in raider produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, idea, rare, read, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are aide, arid, dare, dear, dire, idea, ired, raid, read, and ride — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling raider turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, die, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest plays are aid, die, rad, red, and rid — each worth 4 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 raider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 raider 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.
raider 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in raider carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for raider. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
raider is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arider and raider, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raider 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 raider produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.