yesterdays needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 387 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yesterdays is the highest-scoring word from yesterdays, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 387 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in yesterdays — and it is yesterdays itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yesterdays produces exactly one nine-letter word: yesterday. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yesterdays. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is estrayed, 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 yesterdays produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, deserts, dessert, and easters. For points, the strongest plays are essayed, 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 yesterdays turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, dryest, easter, erased, erases, rested, and seated. 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 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yesterdays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, deers, dress, eased, and eases. 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 yesterdays produces 102 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 yesterdays turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ass, ate, aye, and day. 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 yesterdays. 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.
yesterdays 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 yesterdays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
yesterdays is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yesterdays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yesterdays, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yesterdays 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 yesterdays produce 387 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.