yearlies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 232 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yearlies is the highest-scoring word from yearlies, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 232 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in yearlies — and it is yearlies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yearlies produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sealery, 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 yearlies turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easier, easily, layers, relies, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aerily, easily, eerily, eyries, layers, relays, riyals, and slayer — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, early, erase, laser, layer, lease, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are aiyee, aryls, early, eyers, eyras, eyres, eyrie, lairy, layer, leary, leery, lyase, lyres, relay, resay, riley, riyal, sayer, seely, slyer, and years — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yearlies produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, ease, easy, else, eras, and eyes. For points, the strongest plays are aery, airy, aryl, ayes, easy, eely, eery, eyas, eyer, eyes, eyra, eyre, lays, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, rays, rely, ryas, ryes, slay, syli, yare, year, and yeas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yearlies turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, aye, ear, era, eye, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are aye, ays, eye, lay, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, say, sly, yar, yas, yea, yer, and yes — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ay, and is. 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 yearlies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yearlies 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.
yearlies 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 yearlies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for yearlies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
yearlies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yearlies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yearlies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yearlies 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 yearlies produce 232 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.