hearsay needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HEARAYS, HASERAY or ASHYARE and you get the same 7 letters as HEARSAY: so the words from HEARSAY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
hearsay is the highest-scoring word from hearsay, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hearsay — and it is hearsay itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearsay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, hears and share. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including shyer, ayahs and hayer.
Rearranging the letters in hearsay produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, ears and easy. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including hays, yeah and ashy.
Unscrambling hearsay turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and are. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and shy.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearsay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and ay. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hearsay plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hearsay 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.
hearsay 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for hearsay. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hearsay is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hearsay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hearsay, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hearsay 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 hearsay produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.