competency needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 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.
competency is the highest-scoring word from competency, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in competency — and it is competency itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in competency produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with compete and concept. For points, the strongest plays are ecotype and potency — 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.
Unscrambling competency turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cotype, cymene, ectype, and eponym, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empty, enemy, money, and teeny. For points, the strongest plays are empty, mopey, and myope — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in competency produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, come, cone, copy, meet, nope, and note. For points, the strongest plays are copy, cyme, mopy, and yomp — 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 competency turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, eye, men, met, mop, and net. 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my, no, on, oy, to, 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.
competency 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 4-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 competency. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
competency is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing competency unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is competency, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from competency 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 competency produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.