Hidden inside notify sit notify and tonify, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
notify and tonify tie for the highest Scrabble score from notify at 12 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in notify: one comes from rearranging its letters, and notify itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are notify and tonify, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling notify produces exactly one five-letter word: nifty. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in notify produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into and tiny. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including tiny, fino and foin.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notify. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and it. For points, the strongest plays are if, of, oy, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in notify plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in notify 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.
notify 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 notify carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for notify. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
notify is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing notify unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are notify and tonify, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from notify 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 notify produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.