Hidden inside poignancy sit canopying and poignancy, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
canopying and poignancy tie for the highest Scrabble score from poignancy at 17 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in poignancy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and poignancy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canopying and poignancy, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poignancy produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: copying, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poignancy turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paying. For points, the strongest play is canopy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignancy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with annoy, panic, and piano. For points, the strongest play is copay — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poignancy produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, copy and gain. For points, the strongest plays are copy, pacy, and pyic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poignancy turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, any and can. For points, the strongest play is gyp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignancy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay and go. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in poignancy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in poignancy and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
poignancy 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for poignancy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
poignancy is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poignancy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are canopying and poignancy, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from poignancy 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 poignancy produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.