Hidden inside sidebar sit abiders, braised, darbies and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abiders, braised, darbies and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sidebar at 10 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in sidebar: four come from rearranging its letters, and sidebar 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 abiders, braised, darbies, seabird, and sidebar, 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 sidebar turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beards, breads, brides, rabies, and raised. For points, the strongest plays are abider, abides, ardebs, bardes, beards, biased, biders, braids, breads, brides, debars, debris, disbar, rebids, sabred, and serdab — 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidebar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, based, beard, bears, birds, and bread. For points, the strongest plays are abide, ardeb, barde, bards, bared, based, beads, beard, bider, bides, birds, brads, braid, bread, bride, darbs, debar, drabs, dribs, rabid, rebid, and sabed — 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 sidebar produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, bade, bare, bars, base, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bard, bead, beds, bide, bids, bird, brad, bred, dabs, darb, debs, dibs, drab, and drib — 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 sidebar turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, bad, bar, and bed. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, dab, deb, and dib — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidebar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, be, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — 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 sidebar 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.
sidebar 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 two senses for sidebar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sidebar is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sidebar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abiders, braised, darbies, seabird, and sidebar, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sidebar 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 sidebar produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.