Hidden inside abying sit abying and baying, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abying and baying tie for the highest Scrabble score from abying at 12 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in abying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abying and baying, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abying produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bang and gain. For points, the strongest play is gaby — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abying turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, bag, ban, bay, big, gay, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are aby and bay — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, by, and in. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in abying and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
abying is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
abying is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abying and baying, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abying earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in abying produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.