Unscramble ELIDES and you have 90 words, ELIDES itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. ELIDES has 5 anagrams here, DIESEL, EDILES, SEDILE, SEIDEL and SEILED, scoring 7 like ELIDES itself. Among the shorter answers, 16 reach 6 points, SLIDE, DELIS and SIDLE among them. It has 6 letters, 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from ELIDES by length: 6 with 6 letters, 18 with 5, 35 with 4, 21 with 3 and 10 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of ELIDES, with one letter different:
More 6-letter words: starting with EL · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
What ELIDES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ELIDES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELIDES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 90) | 68 | 90 | 64 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SEILED, DIELS, EILDS, IDEES, SEELD, SIELD, SILED, EILD, EISEL, ESILE, IDEE, LEED and 10 more, 22 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LEDES, DESI, LEDE and EDS, 4 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of ELIDES plus a single extra one.