Hidden inside solid sit diols, idols, lidos and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diols, idols, lidos and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from solid at 6 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words hiding in solid: six come from rearranging its letters, and solid itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with solid. For points, the strongest plays are diols, idols, lidos, loids, sloid, soldi, and solid — 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 solid produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lids, oils, slid, sold, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are diol, dols, idol, lido, lids, loid, olds, sild, slid, and sold — 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 solid turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids, lid, oil, and old. For points, the strongest plays are dis, dol, dos, ids, lid, ods, old, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are do, 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 solid and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
solid 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 eighteen senses for solid. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
solid is one of seven five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solid unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diols, idols, lidos, loids, sloid, soldi, and solid, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solid 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 solid produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.