Hidden inside swordplay sit swordplay and wordplays, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 334 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
swordplay and wordplays tie for the highest Scrabble score from swordplay at 18 points. The top 10 of 334 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in swordplay: one comes from rearranging its letters, and swordplay itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are swordplay and wordplays, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling swordplay produces exactly one eight-letter word: wordplay. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in swordplay produces 2 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 sprawly, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling swordplay turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with worlds. For points, the strongest play is psywar — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swordplay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with draws, drops, loads, lords, plays, prays, and roads. For points, the strongest plays are waspy and yawps — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in swordplay produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, lads, lady, laps, laws, lays, and load. For points, the strongest play is yawp — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling swordplay turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, day, dry, lad, lap, law, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are way, wry, yaw, and yow — 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 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swordplay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, ay, do, or, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, ow, oy, wo, ya, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in swordplay plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in swordplay and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
swordplay 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 swordplay. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
swordplay is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swordplay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swordplay and wordplays, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swordplay 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 swordplay produce 334 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.