Hidden inside curried sit curdier and curried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curdier and curried tie for the highest Scrabble score from curried at 10 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in curried: one comes from rearranging its letters, and curried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are curdier and curried, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cured, drier, and ruder. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including cried, cured and cider.
Rearranging the letters in curried produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cure, dice and rice. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including dice, cedi and cred.
Unscrambling curried turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, die and due. For points, the strongest play is cud — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in curried plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in curried 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.
curried 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.
curried is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curdier and curried, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from curried 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 curried produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.