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WIDER

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WIDER Means

WIDER is a form of WIDE, which means:

  1. adjective: having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other“wide roads”
  2. adjective: broad in scope or content“across-the-board pay increases”
  3. adverb: with or by a broad space“stand with legs wide apart”
  4. adverb: to the fullest extent possible“open your eyes wide”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WIDER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 I1 D2 E1 R1.

Anagrams of WIDER (3)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In WIDER

25 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 (8)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing WIDER

WIDER appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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