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8 Letter Words With Y

There are 5,660 eight-letter words containing Y. 3,381 of them are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 110 are everyday English, and the highest scorer is zyzzyvas at 44 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 5,660, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 110

Word-game words 290

What is in this list

Every word carries its Scrabble score; hover one to see its Words With Friends score, which differs because the two games value tiles differently. Both are raw tile totals and exclude double- and triple-letter squares, since those depend on where you put the word rather than on the word itself.

Words in total
5,660
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
3,381 (60%)
Everyday words
110
Archaic or rare
2,279
Highest Scrabble score
zyzzyvas at 44
Average Scrabble score
15.7
Letters that turn up most
Y 100%, E 51%, A 51%, L 48%, I 48%, R 44%

Questions

How many 8 letter words contain Y?
5,660, across every dictionary this site merges. 110 of those are everyday English, 3,271 are valid in word games without being words you would say out loud, and 2,279 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete.
Which of them are valid in Scrabble?
3,380 appear in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs check against. The 2,279 archaic entries are shown last and labelled, because a word game will usually reject them.
What is the highest-scoring 8 letter word that contain Y?
zyzzyvas, worth 44 in Scrabble and 43 in Words With Friends. Both are raw tile values, before any double- or triple-letter square.
Which are the most common?
By frequency in ordinary English: security, property, category, industry, analysis, delivery, activity, anything. The list below is in that order, so the words you are most likely to want come first.

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