Hidden inside denary sit denary and yarned, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denary and yarned tie for the highest Scrabble score from denary at 10 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in denary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and denary itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denary and yarned, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ready. For points, the strongest plays are deary, deray, nerdy, randy, rayed, and ready — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in denary produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, deny, earn, near, nerd, and read. For points, the strongest plays are deny, dray, dyer, dyne, rynd, and yard — each 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 denary turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, any, are, aye, day, dry, and dye. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each 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 denary 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.
denary 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 denary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for denary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
denary is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing denary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denary and yarned, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from denary 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 denary produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.