Hidden inside spiders sit prissed and spiders, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prissed and spiders tie for the highest Scrabble score from spiders at 10 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in spiders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and spiders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spiders. For points, the strongest plays are prissed and spiders — 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 spiders turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prides and spider. For points, the strongest plays are pissed, prides, prised, redips, spider, and spired — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dress, dries, drips, press, pride, rides, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are drips, pedis, pride, pried, redip, riped, siped, and spied — 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 spiders produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dips, drip, pies, reps, ride, and rids. For points, the strongest plays are deps, dips, drip, pedi, peds, pied, 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 spiders turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ids, per, pie, red, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — 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 spiders 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.
spiders 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 spiders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
spiders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spiders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prissed and spiders, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spiders 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 spiders produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.