Hidden inside yardmen sit draymen and yardmen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
draymen and yardmen tie for the highest Scrabble score from yardmen at 13 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in yardmen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yardmen 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 draymen and yardmen, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yardmen turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dreamy, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yardmen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dream, named, and ready. For points, the strongest play is mayed — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yardmen produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, army, damn, dare, dear, deny, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are demy and emyd — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yardmen turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, any, are, arm, aye, day, and dry. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yardmen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in yardmen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yardmen 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.
yardmen 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 two senses for yardmen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
yardmen is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yardmen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are draymen and yardmen, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yardmen 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 yardmen produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.