subsidy needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
subsidy is the highest-scoring word from subsidy, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in subsidy — and it is subsidy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subsidy. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is byssi, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in subsidy produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bids, buds and busy. For points, the strongest plays are busy and buys — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling subsidy turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, bud and bus. For points, the strongest plays are buy and bys — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in subsidy 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.
subsidy 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 subsidy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
subsidy is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing subsidy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is subsidy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from subsidy 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 subsidy produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.