Hidden inside sidearms sit misreads and sidearms, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 285 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misreads and sidearms tie for the highest Scrabble score from sidearms at 11 points. The top 10 of 285 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sidearms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sidearms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misreads and sidearms, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sidearms produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires. For points, the strongest plays are admires, disarms, misread, sedarim, and sidearm — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sidearms turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, armies, dreams, missed, raised, and raises. For points, the strongest plays are admire, amides, deisms, dermas, dermis, dimers, dirams, disarm, dismes, dreams, madres, massed, medias, missed, and sadism — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidearms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired, armed, aside, dares, dears, and dimes. For points, the strongest plays are aimed, amide, amids, armed, dames, deism, derma, derms, dimer, dimes, diram, disme, drams, dream, madre, maids, meads, media, mired, and rimed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sidearms produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, airs, arms, dare, dear, and dies. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, dams, derm, dime, dims, dram, idem, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, and mids — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sidearms turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, air, are, arm, and ass. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidearms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 sidearms and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
sidearms is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for sidearms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sidearms is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sidearms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misreads and sidearms, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sidearms 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 sidearms produce 285 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.