Hidden inside decry sit cyder and decry, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cyder and decry tie for the highest Scrabble score from decry at 11 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in decry: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decry itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cyder and decry, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decry produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dyer, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decry turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, dry, dye, and red. For points, the strongest play is cry — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decry. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in decry 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.
decry 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in decry carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for decry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
decry is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cyder and decry, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decry 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 decry produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.