Unscramble AIDER and you have 50 words, AIDER itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. AIDER has 4 anagrams here, AIRED, DEAIR, IRADE and REDIA, scoring 6 like AIDER itself. Among the shorter answers, 15 reach 5 points, READ, IDEA and RIDE among them. 5 letters: 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Counting the words from AIDER by length: 5 with 5 letters, 16 with 4, 17 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Trade one tile of AIDER for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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AIDER first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept AIDER, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIDER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 50) | 39 | 50 | 36 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
11 of the 50 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ARED, DARI, EARD, RADE, RIAD, ARD, DAE, DEI, IDE, DI and EA. 3 of the 50 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ARIE, DA and RAI.
Each word below uses all the letters of AIDER and one more.