Hidden inside yulan sit unlay and yulan, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unlay and yulan tie for the highest Scrabble score from yulan at 8 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in yulan: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yulan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are unlay and yulan, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yulan produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are luny and yuan, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in yulan and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
yulan 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.
yulan is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yulan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are unlay and yulan, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yulan 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 yulan produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.