Unscramble AILED and you have 48 words, AILED itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: ELIAD and IDEAL. The 5 letters split into 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
A1I1L12E1D2
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from AILED by length: 3 with 5 letters, 16 with 4, 16 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Keep every letter of AILED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AI · ending in ED · all 5-letter words
What AILED means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept AILED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AILED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 48) | 40 | 48 | 39 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 8 of them: ELIAD, DALI, EILD, DAE, DEI, IDE, DI and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: DA.
These 12 words take every letter of AILED plus a single extra one.