midyear needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
midyear is the highest-scoring word from midyear, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in midyear — and it is midyear itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midyear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired and armed. For points, the strongest play is mayed — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in midyear produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, dare and dear. For points, the strongest plays are demy and emyd — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling midyear turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midyear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in midyear plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in midyear and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
midyear 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in midyear carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
midyear is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing midyear unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is midyear, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from midyear 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 midyear produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.