Hidden inside steady sit stayed and steady, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stayed and steady tie for the highest Scrabble score from steady at 10 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in steady: one comes from rearranging its letters, and steady itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: stayed and steady, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steady. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates. For points, the strongest plays are sayed and styed — 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 steady produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, days, dyes, east, easy, eats, and seat. For points, the strongest plays are days, deys, and dyes — 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 steady turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate, aye, day, dye, eat, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, and dye — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steady. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — 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 steady 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.
steady 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.
Dictionaries record ten senses for steady. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
steady is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steady unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stayed and steady, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steady 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 steady produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.