Hidden inside riders sit derris, driers, and riders, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DIRRES, DRIRES or DESRRI and you get the same 6 letters as RIDERS: so the words from RIDERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
derris, driers, and riders tie for the highest Scrabble score from riders at 7 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in riders: two come from rearranging its letters, and riders 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 derris, driers, and riders, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, dries, and rides. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including drier, dries and rides.
Rearranging the letters in riders produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, ride and rids. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including dies, ride and rids.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
16 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in riders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in riders 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.
riders 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 riders carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for riders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
riders is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing riders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derris, driers, and riders, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from riders 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 riders produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.