Unscramble KAIDS and you have 46 words, KAIDS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. KAIDS has 2 anagrams here, DIKAS and KADIS, scoring 10 like KAIDS itself. The best shorter words score 9: 7 of them, KIDS, DISK and SKID included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Counting the words from KAIDS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 16 with 4, 17 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of KAIDS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with KA · ending in DS · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by KADIS (10 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts KAIDS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAIDS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 46) | 35 | 46 | 30 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DIKAS, KAIDS, DIKA, KAID, KAIS, KAI, SIK, DISA, SIDA, DI and SAI, 11 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SIKA, KIS, KI, DAS and DA, 5 in all.
These 7 words take every letter of KAIDS plus a single extra one.