yesterday needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 299 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yesterday is the highest-scoring word from yesterday, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 299 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in yesterday — and it is yesterday itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yesterday produces exactly one eight-letter word: estrayed. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yesterday produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest. For points, the strongest plays are strayed and yeasted — 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 yesterday turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, dryest, easter, erased, rested, seated, and stared. For points, the strongest play is yeasty — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yesterday. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, deers, eased, erase, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are deary, deray, drays, dryas, dyers, rayed, ready, redye, reedy, sayed, seedy, styed, tardy, tyred, and yards — 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 yesterday produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, days, dear, deer, and dyes. For points, the strongest plays are eyry and yays — 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 yesterday turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, aye, day, and dry. For points, the strongest play is yay — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yesterday. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in yesterday plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yesterday 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.
yesterday 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 two senses for yesterday. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
yesterday is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yesterday unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yesterday, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yesterday 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 yesterday produce 299 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.