Hidden inside skidder sit kidders and skidder, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kidders and skidder tie for the highest Scrabble score from skidder at 13 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in skidder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and skidder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kidders and skidder, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling skidder turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with risked. For points, the strongest plays are dirked, disked, and kidder — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skidder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dried, dries, rides, and skied. For points, the strongest play is diked — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in skidder produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desk, died, dies, kids, ride, rids, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are desk, dike, dirk, disk, drek, kids, sked, and skid — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling skidder turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, ids, kid, red, rid, and sir. For points, the strongest play is kid — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skidder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 skidder 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.
skidder 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 skidder carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for skidder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
skidder is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skidder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kidders and skidder, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skidder 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 skidder produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.