yellows needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yellows is the highest-scoring word from yellows, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in yellows — and it is yellows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yellows turns up 3 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: slowly and yellow, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yellows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swell, wells, and yells. For points, the strongest plays are lowly, welly, wyles, yowes, and yowls — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yellows produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose, owes, owls, sell, slow, well, and yell. For points, the strongest plays are owly, wyes, wyle, yeow, yews, yowe, yowl, and yows — each 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 yellows turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with low, owe, owl, sew, soy, yes, and yow. For points, the strongest plays are wye, yew, and yow — 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 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yellows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, ow, oy, so, we, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, oy, we, wo, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in yellows plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yellows 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.
yellows 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
yellows is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yellows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yellows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yellows 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 yellows produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.