sidekicks needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sidekicks is the highest-scoring word from sidekicks, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sidekicks — and it is sidekicks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sidekicks produces exactly one eight-letter word: sidekick. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sidekicks 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 word is dickies, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sidekicks turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kicked and kissed. For points, the strongest plays are dickie and sicked — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidekicks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decks, desks and dices. For points, the strongest plays are decks and dicks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sidekicks produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deck, desk and dice. For points, the strongest plays are deck and dick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sidekicks turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice and ids. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in sidekicks and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
sidekicks 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 one sense for sidekicks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
sidekicks is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sidekicks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sidekicks, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sidekicks 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 sidekicks produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.