Hidden inside raying sit grainy and raying, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grainy and raying tie for the highest Scrabble score from raying at 10 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in raying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and raying 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 grainy and raying, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry. For points, the strongest plays are angry and rangy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in raying produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gray, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are gray, gyri, yagi, and yang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling raying turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, any, gay, nag, rag, ran, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — 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 raying 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.
raying 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.
raying is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grainy and raying, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raying 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 raying produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.