Hidden inside storeys sit oysters and storeys, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oysters and storeys tie for the highest Scrabble score from storeys at 10 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in storeys: one comes from rearranging its letters, and storeys itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oysters and storeys, 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 storeys turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorest and stores. For points, the strongest plays are oyster, storey, stroys, toyers, and tressy — each worth 9 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 storeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, roses, sorts, store, and story. For points, the strongest plays are oyers, ryots, story, stroy, styes, toyer, treys, troys, tyers, tyres, tyros, and yores — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in storeys produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rose, sets, sore, sort, toes, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are oyer, oyes, rosy, ryes, ryot, soys, stey, stye, tory, toys, trey, troy, tyer, tyes, tyre, tyro, and yore — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling storeys turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, soy, toe, toy, try, yes, and yet. For points, the strongest plays are rye, soy, sty, toy, try, tye, yer, yes, and yet — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, so, to, 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.
Swap a single tile in storeys and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
storeys 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 storeys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
storeys is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing storeys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oysters and storeys, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from storeys 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 storeys produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.