40 words come out when you unscramble BAYED, starting with BAYED itself: 11 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 11 points: ABYED and BEADY. BYDE is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BAYED split into 3 with 5 letters, 7 with 4, 17 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Keep every letter of BAYED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with BA · ending in ED · all 5-letter words
BAYED first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BAYED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 40) | 33 | 40 | 30 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BYDE, BAYE, YEAD, YAD, YAE, DAE and EA, 7 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ABYED, BAE and DA, 3 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of BAYED spell the words below.