Hidden inside deifying sit deifying and edifying, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deifying and edifying tie for the highest Scrabble score from deifying at 16 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in deifying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deifying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deifying and edifying, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deifying produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defying and dignify, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deifying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dying and genii. For points, the strongest plays are deify and edify — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deifying produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deny, dine, find, and fine. For points, the strongest play is defy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deifying turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dye. For points, the strongest play is fey — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deifying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in deifying and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
deifying 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.
deifying is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deifying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deifying and edifying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deifying 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 deifying produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.