Hidden inside spaders sit spaders and spreads, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
spaders and spreads tie for the highest Scrabble score from spaders at 10 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in spaders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and spaders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spreads. For points, the strongest plays are spaders and spreads — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spaders turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passed, spared, spares, and spread. For points, the strongest plays are drapes, padres, parsed, passed, rasped, spader, spades, spared, and spread — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, dress, press, reads, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are drape, padre, pards, pared, raped, spade, and spaed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in spaders produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, dare, dear, ears, eras, pads, and pass. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deps, pads, pard, peds, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spaders turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, ass, ear, era, and pad. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 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 spaders 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.
spaders 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.
spaders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spaders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are spaders and spreads, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spaders 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 spaders produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.