Hidden inside hoidy is one standout: hyoid, a five-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble IHOYD, DOIHY or DOYIH and you get the same 5 letters as HOIDY: so the words from HOIDY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
HOIDY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to HYOID (noun), a bone of the tongue, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
hyoid is the highest-scoring word from hoidy, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling hoidy produces exactly one five-letter word: hyoid. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hoidy produces exactly one four-letter word: yodh. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hoidy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hyoid, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hoidy 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 hoidy produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 5 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.