Hidden inside doby sit body and doby, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
body and doby tie for the highest Scrabble score from doby at 10 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in doby: one comes from rearranging its letters, and doby itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with body. For points, the strongest plays are body and doby — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling doby turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boy. For points, the strongest plays are boy and yob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doby. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, do, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 doby and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
doby 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 doby carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
doby is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doby unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are body and doby, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from doby 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 doby produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.