Hidden inside splaying sit palsying and splaying, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palsying and splaying tie for the highest Scrabble score from splaying at 14 points. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in splaying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and splaying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palsying and splaying, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in splaying produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with playing. For points, the strongest plays are playing, spangly, and spaying — 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 splaying turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying, lyings, paying, saying, signal, and spying. For points, the strongest plays are paying, plying, and spying — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in splaying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, lying, nails, pains, plain, plans, and plays. For points, the strongest play is gipsy — 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 splaying produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gals, gaps, laps, lays, lips, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are gapy and gyps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling splaying turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, gal, gap, gas, gay, lap, and lay. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in splaying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, in, and is. 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 splaying 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.
splaying 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.
splaying is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing splaying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palsying and splaying, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from splaying 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 splaying produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.