Hidden inside deedliy is one standout: yielded, a seven-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEEDLIY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to YIELDED (verb, form of yield), to give up, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
yielded is the highest-scoring word from deedliy, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling deedliy produces exactly one seven-letter word: yielded. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deedliy. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is deedy, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deedliy produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deli and died. For points, the strongest plays are didy, dyed, and eddy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deedliy turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and dye. For points, the strongest plays are dey and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in deedliy and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yielded, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deedliy 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 deedliy produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.