Unscramble KEY

Words One Letter Away from KEY

Swap a single tile in key and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.

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KEY Is a Valid Scrabble Word, and a Valid Words With Friends Word

key 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.

KEY Is Worth 10 Points in Scrabble

KEY Is Worth 9 Points in Words With Friends

The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.

What Does KEY Mean?

Dictionaries record twenty-one senses for key. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:

• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
• identify as in botany or biology, for example
• (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
• United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
• mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
• serving as an essential component
• a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
• a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
• a kilogram of a narcotic drug
• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
• a list of answers to a test
• a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
• harmonize with or adjust to
• metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
• pitch of the voice
• provide with a key
• regulate the musical pitch of
• something crucial for explaining
• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key

key is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing key unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.

What are the Highest-scoring Words from KEY in Scrabble and Words With Friends?

The highest-scoring plays from these letters are key and kye, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from key 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.

How Many Words Can Be Made From KEY?

The letters in key produce 3 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.