Hidden inside datoy sit toady and today, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DATOY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TOADY and TODAY.
toady and today tie for the highest Scrabble score from datoy at 9 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in datoy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with today. For points, the strongest plays are toady and today — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in datoy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in datoy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in datoy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are toady and today, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from datoy 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 datoy produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.