Hidden inside prayed sit drapey and prayed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drapey and prayed tie for the highest Scrabble score from prayed at 12 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in prayed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and prayed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prayed. For points, the strongest plays are drapey and prayed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prayed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ready. For points, the strongest plays are pardy, payed, and perdy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in prayed produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, pray, read, yard, and year. For points, the strongest plays are pray, prey, and pyre — 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 prayed turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, aye, day, dry, dye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are pay, pry, pya, pye, yap, and yep — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prayed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 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 prayed 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.
prayed 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 prayed carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
prayed is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prayed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drapey and prayed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prayed 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 prayed produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.