yardarm 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, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yardarm is the highest-scoring word from yardarm, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in yardarm — and it is yardarm itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yardarm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drama and marry. For points, the strongest play is marry — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yardarm produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army and yard. For points, the strongest plays are army and maya — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yardarm turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, day, dry, mad, and may. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 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 yardarm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, ay, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 yardarm 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.
yardarm 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 yardarm carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for yardarm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
yardarm is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yardarm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yardarm, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yardarm 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 yardarm produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.