Hidden inside edifies sit deifies and edifies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deifies and edifies tie for the highest Scrabble score from edifies at 11 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in edifies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and edifies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deifies and edifies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling edifies produces exactly one six-letter word: defies. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feeds. For points, the strongest plays are defis and feeds — 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 edifies produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, feed, fees, seed, and side. For points, the strongest plays are defi, difs, feds, feed, and fids — 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 edifies turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed, fee, ids, and see. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — 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 edifies 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.
edifies 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 edifies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for edifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
edifies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing edifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deifies and edifies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from edifies 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 edifies produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.