Hidden inside donery sit rodney and yonder, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DONERY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RODNEY and YONDER.
rodney and yonder tie for the highest Scrabble score from donery at 10 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling donery turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rodney and yonder, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in donery. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doyen and nerdy, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in donery produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deny, done, nerd, and rode. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including deny, dory and dyer.
Unscrambling donery turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dry, dye and end. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, dye, and yod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in donery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in donery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in donery 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rodney and yonder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from donery 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 donery produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.