Hidden inside sliders sit sidlers and sliders, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sidlers and sliders tie for the highest Scrabble score from sliders at 8 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sliders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sliders 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 sidlers and sliders, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sliders turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slides. For points, the strongest plays are idlers, resids, sidler, sidles, slider, and slides — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sliders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dress, dries, rides, rises, sides, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, delis, desis, dirls, dress, dries, idler, idles, isled, resid, rides, riled, sides, sidle, silds, sired, sleds, and slide — 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 sliders produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, less, lids, lied, lies, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, desi, diel, dies, dire, dirl, diss, elds, ides, idle, ired, lids, lied, reds, ride, rids, side, sild, sled, and slid — 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 sliders turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, eds, eld, ids, led, lid, red, and rid — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sliders. 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 sliders 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.
sliders 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 four senses for sliders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sliders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sliders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sidlers and sliders, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sliders 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 sliders produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.