psalmody needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
psalmody is the highest-scoring word from psalmody, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in psalmody — and it is psalmody itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in psalmody. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamps, loads, plays, and sadly. For points, the strongest plays are amply, palmy, and yomps — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in psalmody produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, days and lads. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling psalmody turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, day and lad. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including may, pay and spy.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in psalmody. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in psalmody plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in psalmody and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
psalmody 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 2-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 psalmody. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
psalmody is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing psalmody unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is psalmody, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from psalmody 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 psalmody produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.