soldiers needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
soldiers is the highest-scoring word from soldiers, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in soldiers — and it is soldiers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in soldiers produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soldier. For points, the strongest plays are dorsels, dossier, rodless, sidlers, sliders, solders, soldier, and solider — 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 soldiers turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losers and slides. For points, the strongest plays are dories, dorsel, dosers, dossel, dosser, dossil, idlers, oldies, resids, resods, resold, roiled, sidler, sidles, siloed, slider, slides, sloids, soiled, solder, and solids — 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soldiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dress, dries, lords, loser, loses, and older. For points, the strongest plays are deils, delis, desis, diols, dirls, doers, doles, dores, doser, doses, dress, dries, dross, eidos, idler, idles, idols, isled, lidos, lodes, loids, lords, oiled, older, oldie, redos, resid, resod, rides, riled, rodes, roids, rosed, sides, sidle, silds, sired, sleds, slide, sloid, soldi, soled, solid, sords, and sored — 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 soldiers produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, does, less, lids, lied, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, desi, diel, dies, diol, dire, dirl, diss, doer, does, dole, dols, dore, dors, dose, doss, elds, ides, idle, idol, ired, lido, lids, lied, lode, loid, lord, odes, olde, olds, redo, reds, ride, rids, rode, rods, roid, side, sild, sled, slid, sods, sold, and sord — 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 soldiers turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, oil, and old. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, doe, dol, dor, dos, eds, eld, ids, led, lid, ode, ods, old, red, rid, rod, and sod — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soldiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — 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 soldiers 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.
soldiers 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 three senses for soldiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
soldiers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soldiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is soldiers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from soldiers 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 soldiers produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.