Hidden inside yardages sit drayages and yardages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drayages and yardages tie for the highest Scrabble score from yardages at 13 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in yardages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yardages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drayages and yardages, 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 yardages produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drayage, gaydars, 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 yardages turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grades and greasy. For points, the strongest plays 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yardages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, dares, dears, drags, gayer, grade, and rages. For points, the strongest plays are gyred and sedgy — each 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 yardages produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, area, dare, days, dear, and drag. 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 yardages turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, are, aye, day, dry, and dye. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yardages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in yardages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yardages 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.
yardages 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 yardages carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for yardages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
yardages is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yardages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drayages and yardages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yardages 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 yardages produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.