Hidden inside aider sit aider, aired, deair and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aider, aired, deair and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from aider at 6 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in aider: four come from rearranging its letters, and aider itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, deair, irade, and redia — 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 aider produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, idea, read, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are aide, arid, dare, dear, dire, idea, ired, raid, read, and ride — 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 aider turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, die, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest plays are aid, die, rad, red, and rid — 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 aider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. 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.
38 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in aider plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aider and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
aider 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 aider carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
aider is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aider, aired, deair, irade, and redia, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aider 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 aider produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.