Hidden inside holiday sit holiday, hyaloid, and hyoidal, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble OIAYHLD, HALIDOY or LDIAHYO and you get the same 7 letters as HOLIDAY: so the words from HOLIDAY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
holiday, hyaloid, and hyoidal tie for the highest Scrabble score from holiday at 14 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in holiday: two come from rearranging its letters, and holiday itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holiday. For points, the strongest plays are holiday, hyaloid, and hyoidal — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling holiday produces exactly one six-letter word: haloid. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in holiday produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, dial and hail. For points, the strongest play is yodh — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling holiday turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, day and had. For points, the strongest plays are hay, hoy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holiday. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and ay. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and ha.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in holiday plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in holiday 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.
holiday 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for holiday. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
holiday is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holiday unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holiday, hyaloid, and hyoidal, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from holiday 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 holiday produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.