allegedly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allegedly is the highest-scoring word from allegedly, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in allegedly — and it is allegedly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allegedly produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: legally, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allegedly turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with yelled. For points, the strongest plays are agedly, gladly, and gleyed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegedly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, delay, and legal. For points, the strongest plays are glady and ledgy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allegedly produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, deal and edge. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allegedly turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and aye. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including day, dye and gay.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegedly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
allegedly is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for allegedly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
allegedly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allegedly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is allegedly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from allegedly earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in allegedly produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.