Hidden inside sideboard sit broadside and sideboard, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 454 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadside and sideboard tie for the highest Scrabble score from sideboard at 13 points. The top 10 of 454 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sideboard: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sideboard itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are broadside and sideboard, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sideboard. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adsorbed, deboards, disrobed, and roadbeds, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sideboard produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boarded. For points, the strongest plays are baddies, bidders, boarded, braided, deboard, and roadbed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sideboard turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adored, adores, beards, boards, bodies, breads, and brides. For points, the strongest plays are abided, aboded, badder, baddie, barded, bedrid, bidder, birded, and bodied — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sideboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, aside, based, beard, bears, and birds. For points, the strongest plays are bedad, bided, and boded — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sideboard produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, aids, airs, bade, bare, bars, and base. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bard, bead, beds, bide, bids, bird, bode, bods, brad, bred, dabs, darb, debs, dibs, dobe, 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 sideboard turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, aid, air, are, bad, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, bod, 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sideboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, be, do, id, is, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sideboard plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sideboard 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.
sideboard 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 three senses for sideboard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sideboard is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sideboard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are broadside and sideboard, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sideboard 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 sideboard produce 454 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.