adversary needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adversary is the highest-scoring word from adversary, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in adversary — and it is adversary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in adversary produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arrayed, daresay, and yarders, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adversary turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dryers. For points, the strongest plays are derays, dreary, dryers, and yarder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adversary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, dares, dears, dryer, reads, ready, and saved. For points, the strongest play is ravey — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in adversary produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, dare, days, dear, dyes, ears, and easy. For points, the strongest play is davy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adversary turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, aye, day, dry, dye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are day, dev, dey, dry, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adversary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in adversary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in adversary and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
adversary 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in adversary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for adversary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
adversary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adversary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is adversary, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from adversary 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 adversary produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.