Hidden inside today sit toady and today, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
toady and today tie for the highest Scrabble score from today at 9 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in today: one comes from rearranging its letters, and today itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with today. For points, the strongest plays are toady and today — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in today. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in today plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in today 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.
today 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 today. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
today is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing today unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are toady and today, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from today 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 today produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.