Hidden inside annoy sit annoy and anyon, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
annoy and anyon tie for the highest Scrabble score from annoy at 8 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in annoy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and annoy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with annoy. For points, the strongest plays are annoy and anyon — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in annoy 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 anon, nano, and nona, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling annoy turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any. For points, the strongest plays are any, nay, and yon — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in annoy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, no, on, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 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 annoy 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.
annoy 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for annoy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
annoy is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing annoy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are annoy and anyon, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from annoy 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 annoy produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.