Unscramble NIDIFIES to get 108 words. NIDIFIES itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, FIENDS leads with 10 points. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NIDIFIES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 20 with 5, 39 with 4, 31 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 7 letters.
7 of 39 4-letter words from NIDIFIES tie at 8 points; none scores more. FIND, SEND and SIDE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of NIDIFIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NI · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What NIDIFIES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
NIDIFIES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIDIFIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 108) | 77 | 107 | 69 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 30 of them: FIDES, DEIF, FENIS, NIEFS, NIFES, FEIS, FENI, FINI, NEFS, NIEF, NIFE, DENIS and 18 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: DIFS, DEF, DIF, FES, DENI, DESI, FE and EDS. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
These 2 words take every letter of NIDIFIES plus a single extra one.