Unscramble ELDS to get 15 words. ELDS itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 6 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of ELDS are on the page: DELS, SELD and SLED, each 5 points. 5 shorter words score 4, among them LED, EDS and ELD. It has 4 letters, 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ELDS split into 4 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of ELDS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with EL · ending in DS · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to ELDS:
What ELDS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. ELDS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELDS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 15) | 13 | 15 | 12 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SELD and SED, 2 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EDS.
Each word below uses all the letters of ELDS and one more.