Unscramble SAUROIDS and you have 201 words, SAUROIDS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
S1A1U12R1O1I1D2S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from SAUROIDS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 12 with 6, 53 with 5, 60 with 4, 53 with 3 and 19 with 2.
37 of 53 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SAUROIDS tie at 6 points; none scores more. AUDIO, RADIO and ROADS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from SAUROIDS, 45 score 5 points, the group's best. SAID, ROAD and AIDS are the ones most people know.
53 3-letter words from SAUROIDS; 26 of them share the top score of 4. AIR, ASS and ADS are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of SAUROIDS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SA · ending in DS · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by SARDIUS (8 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: SAUROIDS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUROIDS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 201) | 140 | 201 | 123 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 61 of them: SAUROIDS, SAUROID, DOUARS, AIDOS, DARIS, DAURS, DISAS, DORIS, DOUAR, DUARS, RIADS, RUDAS and 49 more. Words With Friends* skips 17 of them: URSIDS, DOSAI, DOSAS, ROIDS, URSID, DOSA, ODAS, ROID, AROS, DAS, ODA, RAIS and 5 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of SAUROIDS and one more.