Hidden inside tardies sit aridest, astride, diaster and 4 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aridest, astride, diaster and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tardies at 8 points. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 seven-letter words hiding in tardies: six come from rearranging its letters, and tardies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aridest, astride, diaster, disrate, staider, tardies, and tirades, 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 tardies turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, raised, stared, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are aiders, airted, daters, deairs, derats, direst, driest, irades, raised, redias, resaid, stared, stride, tirade, trades, treads, and triads — 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 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tardies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, dares, dates, dears, diets, and dries. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aider, aides, aired, aside, dares, darts, dater, dates, deair, dears, deist, derat, diets, dirts, ditas, dites, drats, drest, dries, edits, ideas, irade, raids, rased, rated, reads, redia, resid, rides, sated, sired, sited, stade, staid, stead, stied, tared, tased, tides, tired, trade, trads, tread, triad, tried, tsade, and tsadi — 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 tardies produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, arts, dare, date, dear, and dies. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, arid, dais, dare, dart, date, dear, desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dita, dite, dits, drat, edit, idea, ides, ired, rads, raid, read, reds, ride, rids, sade, sadi, said, sard, side, tads, teds, tide, tied, and trad — 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 tardies turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, das, die, dis, dit, eds, ids, rad, red, rid, sad, tad, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tardies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
28 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tardies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tardies 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.
tardies 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 tardies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tardies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tardies is one of seven seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tardies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aridest, astride, diaster, disrate, staider, tardies, and tirades, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tardies 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 tardies produce 259 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.