Hidden inside ridgedl sit girdled and griddle, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RIDGEDL isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GIRDLED and GRIDDLE.
girdled and griddle tie for the highest Scrabble score from ridgedl at 10 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in ridgedl produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are girdled and griddle, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ridgedl turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gilded, girded, glided and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ridgedl. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dried. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including dried, dirge and gelid.
Rearranging the letters in ridgedl produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, died and girl. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including died, dreg and geld.
Unscrambling ridgedl turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and dig. For points, the strongest plays are did, dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ridgedl. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ridgedl plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ridgedl 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are girdled and griddle, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ridgedl 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 ridgedl produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.