Hidden inside greying sit gingery and greying, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gingery and greying tie for the highest Scrabble score from greying at 12 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in greying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and greying 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 gingery and greying, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling greying turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gyring, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greying. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eying and gynie, 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 greying produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grey and ring. For points, the strongest plays are eggy and yegg — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling greying turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig, and rig. For points, the strongest play is gey — worth 7 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 greying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in greying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in greying 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.
greying 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
greying is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gingery and greying, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greying 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 greying produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.