Hidden inside acedy is one standout: decay, a five-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ACEDY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DECAY (verb), to decompose, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
decay is the highest-scoring word from acedy, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling acedy produces exactly one five-letter word: decay. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in acedy produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aced, cade, and dace, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in acedy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is decay, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from acedy 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 acedy produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.