Unscramble RAPHIDES and you have 283 words, RAPHIDES itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. 5 shorter words score 13, among them PHRASED, APHIDES and DIPHASE. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from RAPHIDES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 17 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 25 with 2.
60 6-letter words in RAPHIDES; 7 of them share the top score of 12. SHARED, SPREAD and PHRASE are everyday picks.
Among the 5-letter words from RAPHIDES, APHID leads with 11 points, then APHIS and APISH on 10. HEARD, PHASE and SHAPE are the familiar ones.
14 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble RAPHIDES tie at 9 points; none scores more. HARD, HEAD and SHIP will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words in RAPHIDES, 6 score 8 points, the group's best. HAS, HAD and ADS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of RAPHIDES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with RA · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What RAPHIDES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RAPHIDES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAPHIDES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 283) | 239 | 283 | 220 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
44 of the 283 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HEPARS, PHARES, SERIPH, SPHAER, SPHEAR, EADISH, HEARDS, HEPAR, PHARE, RASHED, SAPIDER, SHIRED and 32 more. 19 of the 283 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DEHAIRS, PHASER, PISHER, DEHAIR, DESHI, HEPS, SIDHE, AHED, PEDIS, SIDH, AHIS, DEPS and 7 more.
These 6 words take every letter of RAPHIDES plus a single extra one.