Hidden inside yardage sit drayage and yardage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drayage and yardage tie for the highest Scrabble score from yardage at 12 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in yardage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yardage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drayage and yardage, each 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 yardage turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gaydar and grayed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yardage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gayer, grade, and ready. For points, the strongest play is gyred — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yardage produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, area, dare, dear, drag, gray, and grey. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yardage turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, aye, day, dry, dye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, dye, gay, gey, and yag — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yardage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — 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 yardage 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.
yardage 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in yardage carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for yardage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
yardage is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yardage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drayage and yardage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yardage 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 yardage produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.