Hidden inside soldier sit soldier and solider, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
soldier and solider tie for the highest Scrabble score from soldier at 8 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in soldier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and soldier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soldier. For points, the strongest plays are 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 soldier turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dories, dorsel, idlers, oldies, resold, roiled, sidler, siloed, slider, soiled, and solder, 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soldier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dries, lords, loser, older, rides, and roles. For points, the strongest plays are deils, delis, diols, dirls, doers, doles, dores, doser, dries, eidos, idler, idles, idols, isled, lidos, lodes, loids, lords, oiled, older, oldie, redos, resid, resod, rides, riled, rodes, roids, rosed, sidle, sired, slide, sloid, soldi, soled, solid, 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 soldier produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, does, lids, lied, lies, and lord. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, desi, diel, dies, diol, dire, dirl, doer, does, dole, dols, dore, dors, dose, 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, 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 soldier turns up 41 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 soldier. 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 soldier 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.
soldier 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 soldier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
soldier is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soldier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are soldier and solider, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from soldier 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 soldier produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.