Unscramble BARLEY and you have 104 words, BARLEY itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. BARLEY has 2 anagrams here, BARELY and BLEARY, scoring 11 like BARLEY itself. The best shorter words score 10: 7 of them, BAYER, BERYL and BELAY included. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BARLEY by length: 3 with 6 letters, 18 with 5, 37 with 4, 31 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Among 37 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BARLEY, the top score is 9, reached by 9. YEAR, REAL and ABLE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of BARLEY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with BA · ending in EY · all 6-letter words
What BARLEY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. BARLEY is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARLEY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 104) | 82 | 104 | 78 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
22 of the 104 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BAYLE, BERAY, BAYE, BLAY, BLEY, BREY, RAYLE, AYRE, BELAR, BLAER, LYRA, RYAL and 10 more. 4 of the 104 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BAYER, BEAL, YER and BAE.
Each word below uses all the letters of BARLEY and one more.