Hidden inside strider sit stirred and strider, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stirred and strider tie for the highest Scrabble score from strider at 8 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in strider: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strider itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stirred. For points, the strongest plays are stirred and strider — 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 strider turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest. For points, the strongest plays are derris, direst, driers, driest, riders, and stride — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, drier, dries, edits, rides, tired, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, direr, dirts, dites, drest, drier, dries, edits, resid, rider, rides, sired, sited, stied, tides, tired, and tried — 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 strider produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dirt, edit, rest, ride, and rids. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dits, edit, ides, ired, reds, ride, rids, side, teds, tide, and tied — 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 strider turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, red, rid, set, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, eds, ids, red, rid, and ted — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — 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 strider 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.
strider 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in strider carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for strider. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
strider is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stirred and strider, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strider 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 strider produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.