Hidden inside wordie sit weirdo and wordie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WORDEI, WORIDE or ROWIDE and you get the same 6 letters as WORDIE: so the words from WORDIE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
weirdo and wordie tie for the highest Scrabble score from wordie at 10 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in wordie: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wordie itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weirdo. For points, the strongest plays are weirdo and wordie — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wordie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weird and wider. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including weird, wider and dower.
Rearranging the letters in wordie produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drew, owed and ride. For points, the strongest plays are drew, owed, wide, and word — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wordie turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, owe and red. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wordie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and id. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
12 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in wordie plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wordie 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.
wordie is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
wordie is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wordie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are weirdo and wordie, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wordie 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 wordie produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.