Hidden inside deerlay sit delayer, layered, and relayed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEERLAY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DELAYER, LAYERED and RELAYED.
delayer, layered, and relayed tie for the highest Scrabble score from deerlay at 11 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in deerlay produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delayer, layered, and relayed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deerlay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delay, early, layer, and ready. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including delay, ready and deary.
Rearranging the letters in deerlay produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal and dear. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including lady, yard and dray.
Unscrambling deerlay turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye and day. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deerlay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in deerlay plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deerlay 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 plays from these letters are delayer, layered, and relayed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deerlay 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 deerlay produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.