Unscramble PERIDIAL and you have 218 words, PERIDIAL itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. 4 shorter words score 10, among them LIPREAD, PEDRAIL and PERIDIA. The 8 letters split into 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 PERIDIAL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 7, 24 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 19 with 2.
14 of 24 6-letter words in PERIDIAL tie at 9 points; none scores more. DIAPER, PAIRED and REPAID will look familiar.
Of the 57 5-letter words you get when you unscramble PERIDIAL, 20 score 8 points, the group's best. IDEAL, RAPID and PEARL are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words from PERIDIAL; 10 of them share the top score of 7. IDEA, DEAL and PAID are everyday picks.
5 of 51 3-letter words you get when you unscramble PERIDIAL tie at 6 points; none scores more. ARE, AIR and RED will look familiar.
Keep every letter of PERIDIAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PE · ending in AL · all 8-letter words
What PERIDIAL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PERIDIAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERIDIAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 218) | 179 | 216 | 169 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PEDRAIL, PAIDLE, PIERID, IRIDEAL, LEPID, PILIER, DRAP, IRIDAL, LEPRA, PAIRE, PERAI, PILAE and 27 more, 39 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LIPREAD, PEDI, DEP, LIPA, LIPE, PALI, DA and RAI, 8 in all. Not in Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: LARPED and LARP, 2 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of PERIDIAL spell the words below.