Hidden inside sideman sit maidens, medians, medinas and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maidens, medians, medinas and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sideman at 10 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in sideman: three come from rearranging its letters, and sideman itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maidens. For points, the strongest plays are maidens, medians, medinas, and sideman — 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 sideman turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maiden. For points, the strongest plays are admins, aidmen, amends, amides, daimen, denims, desman, maiden, median, medias, medina, and menads — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sideman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aside, damns, dimes, dines, ideas, and maids. For points, the strongest plays are admen, admin, aimed, amend, amide, amids, dames, damns, deism, denim, dimes, disme, maids, maned, meads, media, menad, mends, minds, mined, and named — 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 sideman produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, amen, damn, dies, dime, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, damn, dams, dime, dims, idem, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, mend, mids, and mind — 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 sideman turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, and, die, end, and ids. 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sideman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, id, in, and is. 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 sideman 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.
sideman 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.
sideman is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sideman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maidens, medians, medinas, and sideman, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sideman 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 sideman produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.