Hidden inside tediously sit outyields and tediously, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 389 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outyields and tediously tie for the highest Scrabble score from tediously at 13 points. The top 10 of 389 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tediously: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tediously 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 outyields and tediously, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tediously. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outyield and sedulity, 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 tediously produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loudest and outside. For points, the strongest plays are doylies, dustily, and styloid — 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 tediously turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duties, listed, oldest, studio, and suited. For points, the strongest plays are odyles, studly, styled, yields, yodels, and yodles — 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 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tediously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, edits, louse, lousy, slide, and solid. For points, the strongest plays are deity, ditsy, doily, dusty, idyls, lysed, odyle, odyls, sloyd, study, styed, toyed, yield, yodel, and yodle — 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 tediously produces 135 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lids, lied, lies, list, lose, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are odyl, oldy, deys, doty, duly, duty, dyes, idly, idyl, tidy, tody, yeld, and yods — 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 tediously turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, due, dye, ids, its, and led. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dye, and yod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tediously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, oy, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, 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 tediously 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.
tediously 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 tediously. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tediously is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tediously unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outyields and tediously, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tediously 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 tediously produce 389 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 135 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.