Hidden inside ridgiest sit ridgiest and rigidest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ridgiest and rigidest tie for the highest Scrabble score from ridgiest at 10 points. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ridgiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ridgiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ridgiest and rigidest, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ridgiest produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirties, ditsier, and tidiers, 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 ridgiest turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are digest, digits, dirges, girted, grides, and ridges — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ridgiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dries, edits, rides, tiger, tired, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are digit, dirge, dregs, girds, gride, grids, ridge, and rigid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ridgiest produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, digs, dirt, edit, gets, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are digs, dreg, geds, gids, gied, gird, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ridgiest turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, get, ids, its, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ridgiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in ridgiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ridgiest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ridgiest 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.
ridgiest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ridgiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ridgiest and rigidest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ridgiest 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 ridgiest produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.