polyandry needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polyandry is the highest-scoring word from polyandry, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in polyandry — and it is polyandry itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polyandry produces exactly one seven-letter word: polynya. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polyandry. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doyly and dryly, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in polyandry produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drop, lady and land. For points, the strongest play is dopy — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polyandry turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, any and day. For points, the strongest play is yay — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polyandry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
polyandry 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for polyandry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
polyandry is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polyandry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is polyandry, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from polyandry 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 polyandry produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.