Unscramble IDEA and you have 16 words, IDEA itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of IDEA is on the page: AIDE, each 5 points. The 4 letters split into 3 vowels and 1 consonant.
Looking for aedi, iaed, eaid, iead, edai, ieda, eadi or edia? They use the same letters as IDEA, so the words on this page are their answers too.
I1D2E1A1
By length, the words from IDEA split into 2 with 4 letters, 5 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of IDEA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with I · ending in EA · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to IDEA:
IDEA first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
IDEA works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDEA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 16) | 11 | 16 | 10 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DAE, DEI, IDE, DI and EA, 5 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DA.
These 12 words take every letter of IDEA plus a single extra one.