Hidden inside yearend sit deanery, yearend, and yearned, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deanery, yearend, and yearned tie for the highest Scrabble score from yearend at 11 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in yearend: two come from rearranging its letters, and yearend 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 deanery, yearend, and yearned, 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 yearend turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned. For points, the strongest plays are denary, redeny, yarned, and yeaned — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needy and ready. For points, the strongest plays are deary, deray, needy, nerdy, randy, rayed, ready, redye, and reedy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yearend produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, deer, deny, earn, near, and need. For points, the strongest plays are deny, dray, dyer, dyne, eyed, rynd, and yard — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yearend turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, any, are, aye, day, dry, and dye. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, and dye — 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 yearend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, 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 yearend 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.
yearend 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 yearend carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
yearend is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yearend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deanery, yearend, and yearned, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yearend 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 yearend produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.