Why DAY words matter
Words containing DAY are handy for Scrabble, Words with Friends and word puzzles — filter the list above by length to find the play you need.
A quick statistical tour
A few numbers before you scroll: the 105 words here run from 3 to 14 letters, with 8-letter words the largest group (31 entries). Wordle players have 1 five-letter options, and there are 28 seven-letter candidates for a Scrabble bingo. The single best scorer is HOLIDAYMAKERS at 26 points before multipliers.
Chasing points? The best five entries here are HOLIDAYMAKERS (26), HOLIDAYMAKER (25), EVERYDAYNESSES (24), DAYDREAMLIKE (23), EVERYDAYNESS (22). The longest entry is EVERYDAYNESSES at 14 letters, and the average word here is worth about 16 points. The most useful tiles to hold for this list are A, D and Y, which appear in 105, 105 and 105 of the words respectively.
Start with these three
- DAYLIT — 6 letters for 10 points; every tile in it is a common draw, so it shows up rack after rack.
- TODAYS earns 10 points from just 6 tiles — and it is a word few opponents will bother to challenge.
- Playing TODAY across a double-word square turns its base 9 points into 18 — solid value for 5 tiles.
Five more everyday options from the same list: DAYS (8), BENDAY (12), DAYBED (13), MIDDAY (13), DAY (7).
Learning words through DAY
Groups like this one reward a different kind of practice: pick five words of different lengths from the list above, write each in a sentence, and the DAY pattern moves into long-term memory. It is also a quiet Scrabble edge — racks that spell DAY plus common tiles come up constantly, and prepared players cash them in while others shuffle letters.
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