Hidden inside keyers sit kersey, keyers, and rekeys, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kersey, keyers, and rekeys tie for the highest Scrabble score from keyers at 13 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in keyers: two come from rearranging its letters, and keyers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kersey, keyers, and rekeys, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in keyers. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are keyer, reeky, rekey and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in keyers produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eyes, keys, and seek. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including keys, kyes and ryke.
Unscrambling keyers turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, key and see. For points, the strongest plays are key, kye, and sky — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in keyers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in keyers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
keyers 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.
keyers is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing keyers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kersey, keyers, and rekeys, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from keyers 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 keyers produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.