No word spells GIFTEDY. Unscramble GIFTEDY instead and you have 80 words, and the best is FIDGETY at 15 points. The strongest shorter words are EDIFY and DEIFY, 12 points each. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from GIFTEDY by length: 1 with 7 letters, 2 with 6, 5 with 5, 22 with 4, 35 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in GIFTEDY: FIDGETY, for 15 points.
Keep every letter of GIFTEDY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with FI · ending in TY · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by FIDGETY (15 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
None of the three games accepts GIFTEDY itself. Its letters still make 80 playable words, split by game below.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIFTEDY itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 80) | 61 | 79 | 54 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 18 of them: DEIF, FY, GYTE, TEDY, TYDE, TYED, FEG, TYG, YITE, TEF, DEG, GEIT and 6 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: DEF, DIF, GIF, FE, GITE, GI and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
This word takes every letter of GIFTEDY plus a single extra one.