weary needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
weary is the highest-scoring word from weary, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in weary — and it is weary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weary produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wear and year. For points, the strongest plays are awry and wary — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weary turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye and ear. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including way, wry and wye.
Swap a single tile in weary 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.
weary 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 three senses for weary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
weary is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is weary, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from weary 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 weary produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.