soldiery needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 272 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
soldiery is the highest-scoring word from soldiery, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 272 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in soldiery — and it is soldiery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in soldiery produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soldier. For points, the strongest plays are doylies, ridleys, and yodlers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling soldiery turns up 24 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are direly, odyles, ridley, yields, yodels, yodler, and yodles, 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soldiery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dries, lords, loser, older, rides, and roles. For points, the strongest plays are doily, drily, dyers, idyls, lysed, odyle, odyls, redly, sloyd, yield, yirds, yodel, and yodle — 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 soldiery produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, does, dyes, lids, lied, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are deys, dory, drys, dyer, dyes, idly, idyl, odyl, oldy, yeld, yird, and yods — 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 soldiery turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dry, dye, ids, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, dye, and yod — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soldiery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, or, oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in soldiery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in soldiery 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.
soldiery 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 soldiery carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for soldiery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
soldiery is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soldiery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is soldiery, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from soldiery 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 soldiery produce 272 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.