Hidden inside sideways sit sideways and waysides, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sideways and waysides tie for the highest Scrabble score from sideways at 15 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sideways: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sideways itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sideways and waysides, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sideways produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sideway and wayside, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sideways turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is swayed, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sideways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, essay, ideas, and sides. For points, the strongest play is yawed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sideways produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, days, dies, dyes, easy, idea, and said. For points, the strongest plays are dewy and wady — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sideways turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ass, aye, day, die, and dye. For points, the strongest plays are way, wye, yaw, and yew — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sideways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, ay, ew, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, ew, we, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in sideways plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sideways and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
sideways 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 five senses for sideways. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
sideways is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sideways unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sideways and waysides, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sideways 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 sideways produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.