Hidden inside yearns sit senary and yearns, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
senary and yearns tie for the highest Scrabble score from yearns at 9 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in yearns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yearns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are senary and yearns, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, saner, and years. For points, the strongest plays are eyras, resay, sayer, syren, yarns, yeans, yearn, 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 yearns produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears, easy, eras, near, sane, and year. For points, the strongest plays are aery, ayes, easy, eyas, eyra, nary, nays, rays, ryas, ryes, snye, syne, yare, yarn, yean, year, yeas, and yens — 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 yearns turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are, aye, ear, era, ran, and say. For points, the strongest plays are any, aye, ays, nay, ray, rya, rye, say, syn, yar, yas, yea, yen, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, 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 yearns and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
yearns 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 yearns carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for yearns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
yearns is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yearns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are senary and yearns, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yearns 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 yearns produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.