yields needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yields is the highest-scoring word from yields, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in yields — and it is yields itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yields. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis and slide. For points, the strongest plays are idyls, lysed, and yield — 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 yields produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dyes, lids, lied, lies, and side. For points, the strongest plays are deys, dyes, idly, idyl, and yeld — 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 yields turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye, ids, led, lid, lie, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are dey and dye — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yields. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest play is ye — 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 yields 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.
yields 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 yields carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seventeen senses for yields. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
yields is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yields unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yields, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yields 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 yields produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.