Hidden inside freya is one standout: faery, a five-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FAYER, YEARF or FERAY and you get the same 5 letters as FREYA: so the words from FREYA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
FREYA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FAERY (noun), faerie, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
faery is the highest-scoring word from freya, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling freya produces exactly one five-letter word: faery. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling freya turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye and ear. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in freya 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is faery, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from freya 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 freya produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.