Hidden inside storying sit storying and stroying, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
storying and stroying tie for the highest Scrabble score from storying at 12 points. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in storying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and storying 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 storying and stroying, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in storying produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorting. For points, the strongest plays are signory and stringy — 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 storying turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, string, strong, and trying. For points, the strongest plays are gyrons, stingy, stying, toying, trying, tyring, and yogins — 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, irons, irony, rings, riots, sting, and story. For points, the strongest plays are gorsy, gynos, gyron, gyros, stogy, tying, yogin, and yogis — 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 storying produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, orgy, rigs, ring, riot, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are gory, goys, gyno, gyri, gyro, orgy, and yogi — 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 storying turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its, nor, not, rig, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest play is goy — worth 7 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 storying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are oy 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 storying 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.
storying 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.
storying is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing storying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are storying and stroying, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from storying 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 storying produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.