artillery needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artillery is the highest-scoring word from artillery, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in artillery — and it is artillery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artillery. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are literary, raillery, and retrally, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in artillery produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reality and trailer. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including reality, alertly and irately.
Unscrambling artillery turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lately, really, and taller. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including lately, really and aerily.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artillery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alley and alter. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including alley, early and layer.
Rearranging the letters in artillery produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, liar and rare. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including rely, tray and year.
Unscrambling artillery turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all and are. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including aye, lay and try.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artillery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in artillery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in artillery and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
artillery 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for artillery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
artillery is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing artillery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is artillery, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from artillery 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 artillery produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.