Hidden inside stray sit artsy, satyr, stray and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artsy, satyr, stray and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stray at 8 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in stray: three come from rearranging its letters, and stray itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trays. For points, the strongest plays are artsy, satyr, stray, and trays — 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 stray produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, rats, star, stay, and tray. For points, the strongest plays are arty, rays, ryas, stay, and tray — 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 stray turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, rat, sat, say, and try. For points, the strongest plays are ays, ray, rya, say, sty, try, yar, and yas — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stray. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. 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 stray and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
stray 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 six senses for stray. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
stray is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stray unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are artsy, satyr, stray, and trays, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stray 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 stray produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.