Hidden inside slides sit sidles and slides, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sidles and slides tie for the highest Scrabble score from slides at 7 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in slides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slides. For points, the strongest plays are sidles 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, sides, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, delis, desis, idles, isled, sides, sidle, silds, 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 slides produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, less, lids, lied, lies, and side. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, desi, diel, dies, diss, elds, ides, idle, lids, lied, 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 slides turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, eds, eld, ids, led, and lid — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slides. 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 slides and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
slides 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 ten senses for slides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
slides is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sidles and slides, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slides 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 slides produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.