Abides is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 147 anagrams from letters in abides (abdeis).
before 1000; Middle English abiden, Old English ābīdan; cognate with Old High German irbītan await, Gothic usbeisns expectation, patience. See a-3, Examples for abides
Though the desert were arid on this side, it was her desert, and there in her tent must she abide. But even for children struggling to care for elderly parents on their own want to abide by tradition. Beyond the mental acuity needed to focus through the pain, the young woman must also abide by a strict diet. North Korea must show it is serious and prepared to abide by its commitments, particularly concerning denuclearization. Author of many hymns, the most popular of which is "abide with Me." But, Master Will, how cometh it that thou dost now abide in Sherwood? Broussard was not the sort of man who could abide such defeat. They foresaw that civilized and savage life could not abide side by side. The officers then could not abide him, though some were submissive to him because of his father's position. Human happiness,” the Greek historian Herodotus once observed, “does not abide long in one place.