efficacy needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
efficacy is the highest-scoring word from efficacy, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in efficacy — and it is efficacy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in efficacy produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe and face. For points, the strongest plays are iffy and yaff — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling efficacy turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aye and ice. For points, the strongest plays are aff, eff, fay, fey, and iff — each worth 9 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 efficacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay and if. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ef, fa, fe, if, 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.
efficacy 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 efficacy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
efficacy is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing efficacy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is efficacy, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from efficacy 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 efficacy produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.