Hidden inside greedy sit greedy and greyed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greedy and greyed tie for the highest Scrabble score from greedy at 11 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in greedy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and greedy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greedy. For points, the strongest plays are greedy and greyed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greedy. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gyred, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in greedy produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, edge, and grey. For points, the strongest play is edgy — 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 greedy turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dry, dye, eye, gee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, dye, and gey — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greedy. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in greedy 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.
greedy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in greedy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for greedy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
greedy is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greedy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are greedy and greyed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greedy 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 greedy produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.