Hidden inside decoying sit decoying and gynecoid, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decoying and gynecoid tie for the highest Scrabble score from decoying at 15 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in decoying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decoying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decoying and gynecoid, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decoying produces exactly one seven-letter word: coigned. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decoying turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined and dyeing. For points, the strongest plays are coying and dioecy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decoying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing and dying. For points, the strongest plays are coyed, decoy, dicey, and yogic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decoying produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, coin and cone. For points, the strongest plays are cony, dogy, and edgy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decoying turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die and dig. For points, the strongest plays are coy and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decoying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in decoying and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
decoying 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.
decoying is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decoying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decoying and gynecoid, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decoying 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 decoying produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.