Hidden inside awry sit awry and wary, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
awry and wary tie for the highest Scrabble score from awry at 10 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in awry: one comes from rearranging its letters, and awry itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awry and wary, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in awry and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
awry 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 four senses for awry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
awry is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing awry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are awry and wary, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from awry 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 awry produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.