Hidden inside ridgel sit gilder, girdle, glider and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gilder, girdle, glider and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ridgel at 8 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in ridgel: four come from rearranging its letters, and ridgel 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 gilder, girdle, glider, regild, and ridgel, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ridgel. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirge, gelid, glide, gride, and ridge, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ridgel produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, girl, lied, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, geld, gied, gild, gird, gled, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ridgel turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, led, leg, lid, lie, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ridgel. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ridgel 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.
ridgel 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ridgel. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ridgel is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ridgel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gilder, girdle, glider, regild, and ridgel, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ridgel 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 ridgel produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.