yearbook needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yearbook is the highest-scoring word from yearbook, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in yearbook — and it is yearbook itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yearbook turns up 3 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: bakery, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearbook. If a familiar word is all you need, start with break and broke. For points, the strongest plays are barky, beaky, and braky — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yearbook produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bake, bare, bark, bear, book, bore, and okay. For points, the strongest plays are kayo, kray, kyar, oaky, okay, ryke, yerk, and yoke — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yearbook turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye, bar, bay, boo, boy, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are kay, key, kye, yak, and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearbook. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay, be, by, ok, or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 yearbook plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yearbook 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.
yearbook 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 yearbook carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for yearbook. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
yearbook is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yearbook unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yearbook, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yearbook 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 yearbook produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.