Hidden inside gratedy sit gyrated and tragedy, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GRAYDET, GETARDY or DETAGRY and you get the same 7 letters as GRATEDY: so the words from GRATEDY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
GRATEDY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GYRATED and TRAGEDY.
gyrated and tragedy tie for the highest Scrabble score from gratedy at 12 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in gratedy produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tragedy. For points, the strongest plays are gyrated and tragedy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratedy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gayer, grade and great. For points, the strongest play is gyred — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gratedy produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and date. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gratedy turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including day, dry and dye.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratedy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in gratedy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gratedy 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gyrated and tragedy, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gratedy 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 gratedy produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.