Unscramble SIELD and you have 58 words, SIELD itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 9 anagrams at 6 points each, among them DEILS, DELIS and DIELS. The best shorter words score 5: 17 of them, SIDE, DIES and IDLE included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SIELD split into 10 with 5 letters, 22 with 4, 17 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of SIELD but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SI · ending in LD · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with DEILS, DELIS, IDLES, ISLED, SIDLE and SLIDE (6 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: SIELD 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIELD itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 58) | 46 | 58 | 44 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 12 of them: DIELS, EILDS, SIELD, SILED, EILD, SELD, DEI, IDE, SED, SEIL, SILE and DI. Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: DESI and EDS.
Each word below uses all the letters of SIELD and one more.