Hidden inside storey sit oyster, storey, and toyers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble STOEYR, SERTYO or YOESTR and you get the same 6 letters as STOREY: so the words from STOREY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
oyster, storey, and toyers tie for the highest Scrabble score from storey at 9 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in storey: two come from rearranging its letters, and storey 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 oyster, storey, and toyers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with store and story. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including story, oyers and ryots.
Rearranging the letters in storey produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rose and sore. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including toys, oyer and oyes.
Unscrambling storey turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, soy and toe. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including soy, toy and try.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy and so. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in storey plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in storey 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.
storey 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 one sense for storey. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
storey is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing storey unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oyster, storey, and toyers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from storey 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 storey produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.