Hidden inside tedious sit outside and tedious, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outside and tedious tie for the highest Scrabble score from tedious at 8 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tedious: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tedious itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outside. For points, the strongest plays are outside and tedious — 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 tedious turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duties, studio, and suited. For points, the strongest plays are duties, ousted, studio, suited, todies, and toused — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tedious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, edits, and suite. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dites, doest, doits, dotes, douse, douts, duets, duits, edits, eidos, odist, outed, sited, stied, and tides — 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 tedious produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, does, dots, dust, edit, and side. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dite, dits, does, doit, dose, dost, dote, dots, dout, dues, duet, duit, duos, dust, edit, ides, odes, ouds, side, stud, sued, teds, tide, tied, tods, toed, udos, and used — 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 tedious turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, due, ids, its, out, and set. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, doe, dos, dot, due, dui, duo, eds, ids, ode, ods, oud, sod, ted, tod, and udo — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tedious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, 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 tedious 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.
tedious 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 two senses for tedious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tedious is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tedious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outside and tedious, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tedious 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 tedious produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.