Hidden inside morays sit mayors and morays, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mayors and morays tie for the highest Scrabble score from morays at 11 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in morays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and morays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mayors. For points, the strongest plays are mayors and morays — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in morays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mayor. For points, the strongest plays are mayor, mayos, 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 morays produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, army, mays, and soya. For points, the strongest plays are army, mayo, mays, and yams — 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 morays turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, may, say, and soy. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in morays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, ay, my, or, oy, and so. 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 morays 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.
morays 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 morays carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for morays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
morays is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing morays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mayors and morays, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from morays 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 morays produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.