replying needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
replying is the highest-scoring word from replying, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in replying — and it is replying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in replying produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relying. For points, the strongest plays are preying and yelping — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling replying turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gripey, plying, and prying, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lying. For points, the strongest play is gripy — 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 replying produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, grey, grip, line, pile, rely, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are pily, piny, prey, pyin, pyre, yelp, and yipe — 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 replying turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leg, lie, lip, pen, per, pie, and pig. For points, the strongest play is gyp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is ye — 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 replying 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.
replying 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
replying is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing replying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is replying, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from replying 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 replying produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.