Hidden inside yearlings sit layerings, searingly, syringeal and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 599 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
layerings, searingly, syringeal and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from yearlings at 13 points. The top 10 of 599 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in yearlings: three come from rearranging its letters, and yearlings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are layerings, searingly, syringeal, and yearlings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearlings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are greasily, larynges, layering, relaying, resaying, synergia, yealings, and yearling, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yearlings produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, relying, and sealing. For points, the strongest plays are angerly, angrily, argyles, relying, slaying, syringa, syringe, and yealing — 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 yearlings turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angers, angles, easily, easing, and greasy. For points, the strongest plays are anergy, argyle, gainly, glairy, gnarly, grainy, greasy, grisly, gynies, gyrase, laying, lyings, lysing, raying, sagely, saying, singly, slangy, and yagers — 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 162 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, angel, anger, angle, angry, and early. For points, the strongest plays are agley, angry, eying, gaily, gayer, girly, glary, gleys, grays, greys, gynie, gyral, gyres, lingy, lying, rangy, yager, yages, yagis, and yangs — 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 yearlings produces 165 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, lane, lays, lean, legs, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are agly, sagy, gays, gley, gray, grey, gyre, gyri, yage, yagi, yags, and yang — 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 yearlings turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, any, are, aye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, in, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in yearlings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yearlings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
yearlings 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for yearlings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
yearlings is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yearlings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are layerings, searingly, syringeal, and yearlings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yearlings 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 yearlings produce 599 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 162 five-letter words, 165 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.