Hidden inside slidey is one standout: yields, a six-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble YELDIS, DELYSI or SLIDYE and you get the same 6 letters as SLIDEY: so the words from SLIDEY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
SLIDEY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to YIELDS (verb, form of yield), to give up, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
yields is the highest-scoring word from slidey, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling slidey produces exactly one six-letter word: yields. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slidey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis and slide. For points, the strongest plays are idyls, lysed, and yield — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in slidey produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and dyes. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including dyes, deys and idly.
Unscrambling slidey turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dey and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in slidey plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slidey 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yields, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from slidey 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 slidey produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.