What RAIDS Means
RAIDS is a form of RAID, which means:
- verb: search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on“The police raided the crack house”
- verb: enter someone else's territory and take spoils“The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly”
- noun: a sudden short attack
- noun: an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RAIDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 A1 I1 D2 S1.
Anagrams of RAIDS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RAIDS
48 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (20)
3 letter words (19)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing RAIDS
RAIDS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.