Hidden inside keyer sit keyer, reeky, and rekey, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
keyer, reeky, and rekey tie for the highest Scrabble score from keyer at 12 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in keyer: two come from rearranging its letters, and keyer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are keyer, reeky, and rekey, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in keyer produces 6 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ryke and yerk, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in keyer 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.
keyer is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
keyer is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing keyer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are keyer, reeky, and rekey, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from keyer 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 keyer produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.