Hidden inside sides sit desis and sides, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
desis and sides tie for the highest Scrabble score from sides at 6 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in sides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sides. For points, the strongest plays are desis and sides — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sides produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies and side. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diss, ides, and side — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sides turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die and ids. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, eds, and ids — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 sides and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sides 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in sides carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record fourteen senses for sides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
sides is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are desis and sides, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sides 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 sides produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.