Hidden inside riddles sit dreidls and riddles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dreidls and riddles tie for the highest Scrabble score from riddles at 9 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in riddles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and riddles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dreidls and riddles, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling riddles turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirled, dreidl, riddle, and sidled, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riddles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dried and dries. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including dried, idled and redds.
Rearranging the letters in riddles produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, died and dies. For points, the strongest plays are died and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling riddles turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and ids. For points, the strongest play is did — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riddles. 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.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in riddles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in riddles and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
riddles 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 eight senses for riddles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
riddles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing riddles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dreidls and riddles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from riddles 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 riddles produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.