subsidiary needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
subsidiary is the highest-scoring word from subsidiary, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in subsidiary — and it is subsidiary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling subsidiary produces exactly one eight-letter word: dysurias. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in subsidiary produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is subsidy, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling subsidiary turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with absurd. For points, the strongest play is daubry — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subsidiary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basis, birds and dairy. For points, the strongest play is dauby — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in subsidiary produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and bars. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including bays, bury and busy.
Unscrambling subsidiary turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, buy, and bys — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subsidiary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and ay. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
subsidiary 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 three senses for subsidiary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
subsidiary is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing subsidiary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is subsidiary, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from subsidiary 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 subsidiary produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.