Unscramble SIDELIGHT and you have 237 words, SIDELIGHT itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. DELIGHTS and SLIGHTED are the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from SIDELIGHT by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 4 with 7, 31 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 19 with 2.
DIGHTS and SIGHED are the top 6-letter words from SIDELIGHT, 11 points each. LISTED, LIGHTS and DIGEST will look familiar.
DIGHT scores highest among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SIDELIGHT at 10 points, ahead of DESHI and EIGHT on 9. LIGHT, SLIDE and SIGHT are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words from SIDELIGHT, the top score is 8, reached by 12. EDIT, HELD and GETS are the familiar ones.
EDH, GHI and HID are the top 3-letter words in SIDELIGHT, 7 points each. GET, ITS and SET will look familiar.
Keep every letter of SIDELIGHT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SI · ending in HT · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by DELIGHTS and SLIGHTED (13 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
SIDELIGHT 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIDELIGHT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 237) | 189 | 237 | 172 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LITHED, SHITED, SITHED, GHEST, HEIDS, HISTIE, LITHES, TEHSIL, THIGS, HEID, HILD, LEISH and 36 more, 48 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DELISH, DESHI, SIDHE, SHITE, SIDH, DELTS, GITES, DELT, DESI, GITE, EDS, GIS and 5 more, 17 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of SIDELIGHT spell the words below.