Hidden inside economy sit economy and monoecy, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
economy and monoecy tie for the highest Scrabble score from economy at 14 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in economy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and economy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with economy. For points, the strongest plays are economy and monoecy — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in economy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with money. For points, the strongest plays are coney, cooey, money, and moony — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in economy produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, cone, moon, and once. For points, the strongest play is cyme — 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 economy turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, men, moo, and one. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in economy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my, no, on, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in economy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in economy and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
economy 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 2-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 economy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
economy is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing economy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are economy and monoecy, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from economy 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 economy produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.