Hidden inside dearfy sit defray and frayed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEARFY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DEFRAY and FRAYED.
defray and frayed tie for the highest Scrabble score from dearfy at 13 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dearfy 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 defray and frayed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearfy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ready. For points, the strongest play is fayed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dearfy produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf and dear. For points, the strongest play is defy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dearfy turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye and day. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearfy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ay, ef and fa.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in dearfy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dearfy 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 defray and frayed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dearfy 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 dearfy produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.