Hidden inside edify sit deify and edify, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deify and edify tie for the highest Scrabble score from edify at 12 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in edify: one comes from rearranging its letters, and edify itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deify and edify, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in edify produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is defy, 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 edify turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye, and fed. For points, the strongest play is fey — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edify. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, 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 edify and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
edify 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for edify. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
edify is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing edify unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deify and edify, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from edify 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 edify produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.