128 words come out when you unscramble YEARDS, starting with YEARDS itself: 10 in Scrabble, 9 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of YEARDS is on the page: DERAYS, each 10 points. It has 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 YEARDS by length: 2 with 6 letters, 26 with 5, 45 with 4, 41 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 45 4-letter words from YEARDS, 13 score 8 points, the group's best. YEAR, READ and DAYS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of YEARDS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with YE · ending in DS · all 6-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by DERAYS (10 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts YEARDS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| YEARDS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 128) | 94 | 128 | 87 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: YEARDS, DREYS, YEADS, YEARD, YERDS, ADRY, ARSEY, AYRES, DREY, SYED, YADS, YEAD and 22 more, 34 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DRYAS, SAYED, YAS, YER, DAS, EDS and DA, 7 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of YEARDS plus a single extra one.