Hidden inside grindery sit grindery and redrying, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grindery and redrying tie for the highest Scrabble score from grindery at 13 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in grindery: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grindery itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grindery and redrying, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grindery produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grinder and regrind, 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 grindery turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drying and dyeing. For points, the strongest plays are dingey, drying, and dyeing — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grindery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, drier, dryer, dying, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dying, gyred, and ridgy — each 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 grindery produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deny, dine, grey, nerd, ride, and ring. 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 grindery turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dry, dye, end, red, and rid. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grindery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in grindery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grindery and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
grindery 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.
grindery is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grindery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grindery and redrying, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grindery 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 grindery produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.