wizardry needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wizardry is the highest-scoring word from wizardry, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in wizardry — and it is wizardry itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wizardry produces exactly one six-letter word: wizard. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wizardry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dairy and diary. For points, the strongest play is zaidy — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wizardry produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with draw and yard. For points, the strongest play is izar — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wizardry turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and day. For points, the strongest play is wiz — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wizardry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, ay, and id. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in wizardry and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
wizardry 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 wizardry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 24 points on a Scrabble board:
wizardry is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wizardry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wizardry, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wizardry 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 wizardry produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.