Hidden inside darrey sit dreary and yarder, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DARREY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DREARY and YARDER.
dreary and yarder tie for the highest Scrabble score from darrey at 10 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling darrey turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dreary and yarder, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darrey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dryer and ready. For points, the strongest plays are deary, deray, derry, dryer, rayed, ready, and redry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in darrey produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, rare, read, yard, and year. For points, the strongest plays are dray, dyer, and yard — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling darrey turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye, day, dry, dye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darrey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in darrey plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in darrey and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dreary and yarder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from darrey 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 darrey produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.