Hidden inside friary sit friary and rarify, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
friary and rarify tie for the highest Scrabble score from friary at 12 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in friary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and friary itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are friary and rarify, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairy. For points, the strongest plays are fairy and firry — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in friary produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fair. For points, the strongest play is fray — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling friary turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, far, and fry. For points, the strongest plays are fay and fry — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay and if. For points, the strongest plays are ay, fa, if, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in friary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in friary 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.
friary 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 friary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
friary is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing friary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are friary and rarify, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from friary 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 friary produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.