Hidden inside laying sit gainly and laying, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gainly and laying tie for the highest Scrabble score from laying at 10 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in laying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and laying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying. For points, the strongest plays are gainly and laying — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in laying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lying. For points, the strongest plays are gaily, lingy, and lying — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in laying produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain and nail. For points, the strongest plays are agly, yagi, and yang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling laying turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, gal, gay, lay, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in laying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in laying 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.
laying 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for laying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
laying is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing laying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gainly and laying, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from laying 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 laying produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.