Hidden inside tidies sit teiids and tidies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
teiids and tidies tie for the highest Scrabble score from tidies at 7 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tidies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tidies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are teiids and tidies, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tidies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets and edits. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dites, edits, sited, stied, teiid, 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 tidies produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, edit, side, site, tied, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dite, dits, edit, ides, 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 tidies turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, eds, ids, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tidies. 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 tidies and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tidies 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 tidies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for tidies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tidies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tidies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are teiids and tidies, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tidies 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 tidies produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.