Hidden inside hider sit hider and hired, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hider and hired tie for the highest Scrabble score from hider at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hider: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hider itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hired. For points, the strongest plays are hider and hired — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hider produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hide, hire, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are herd, hide, and hied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and id. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hider 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.
hider 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.
hider is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hider and hired, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hider 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 hider produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.