Hidden inside moray sit mayor and moray, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mayor and moray tie for the highest Scrabble score from moray at 10 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in moray: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moray itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mayor. For points, the strongest plays are mayor and moray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in moray produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army. For points, the strongest plays are army and mayo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling moray turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm and may. For points, the strongest plays are may, yam, and yom — each worth 8 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 moray. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay, my, or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 moray 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.
moray 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 moray carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for moray. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
moray is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moray unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mayor and moray, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moray 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 moray produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.