Hidden inside sidetracks sit sidetracks and tracksides, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 830 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sidetracks and tracksides tie for the highest Scrabble score from sidetracks at 17 points. The top 10 of 830 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in sidetracks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sidetracks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sidetracks and tracksides, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sidetracks turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sidetrack and trackside, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidetracks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with disaster, scariest, and stickers. For points, the strongest plays are restacks, stackers, and stickers — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sidetracks produces 70 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress, credits and darkest. For points, 7 words tie at 14 points, including tracked, tricked and dackers.
Unscrambling sidetracks turns up 171 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, credit and crises. For points, 13 words tie at 13 points, including ticked, arcked and carked.
There are 262 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidetracks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cakes, cards and cared. For points, the strongest plays are caked, decks, dicks, and dreck — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sidetracks produces 203 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, the strongest plays are deck and dick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sidetracks turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest plays are ack and ick — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sidetracks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
sidetracks 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 sidetracks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
sidetracks is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sidetracks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sidetracks and tracksides, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sidetracks 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 sidetracks produce 830 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 70 seven-letter words, 171 six-letter words, 262 five-letter words, 203 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.