Unscramble IDEALS and you have 137 words, IDEALS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. 5 anagrams of IDEALS are on the page: AISLED, DEASIL, ELIADS, LADIES and SAILED, each 7 points. It has 6 letters, 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from IDEALS split into 6 with 6 letters, 27 with 5, 52 with 4, 35 with 3 and 17 with 2.
36 of 52 4-letter words from IDEALS tie at 5 points; none scores more. SAID, SALE and SIDE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of IDEALS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with ID · ending in LS · all 6-letter words
What IDEALS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. IDEALS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDEALS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 137) | 110 | 137 | 105 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
27 of the 137 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ELIADS, DALIS, DIELS, EILDS, ELIAD, LAIDS, SIELD, SILED, SLADE, SLAID, DAES, DALI and 15 more. 5 of the 137 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DESI, DAS, EDS, LIAS and DA.
Each word below uses all the letters of IDEALS and one more.