Hidden inside idley is one standout: yield, a five-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
IDLEY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to YIELD (verb), to give up, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
yield is the highest-scoring word from idley, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling idley produces exactly one five-letter word: yield. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in idley produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli and lied. For points, the strongest plays are idly, idyl, and yeld — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in idley 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 yield, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from idley 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 idley produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.