artlessly 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, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artlessly is the highest-scoring word from artlessly, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in artlessly — and it is artlessly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in artlessly produces 18 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alertly, estrays, lysates, rallyes, rayless, retally, saltery, slayers, stalely, stayers, and stylers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling artlessly turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alleys, alters, lasers, lately, layers, and really. For points, the strongest plays are alleys, elytra, estray, lastly, lately, layers, lealty, lyases, lyrate, lysate, rallye, really, realty, relays, resays, satyrs, sayers, sayest, slatey, slayer, slyest, stayer, strays, stylar, styler, styles, tellys, tressy, yarest, and yeasts — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artlessly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alley, alter, early, essay, laser, and lasts. For points, the strongest plays are alley, artsy, aryls, early, essay, eyass, eyras, lassy, layer, leary, lyart, lyase, lyres, lyses, lyssa, rally, relay, resay, sally, salty, satyr, sayer, sayst, slaty, slays, slyer, stays, stray, styes, style, tally, teary, telly, trays, treys, tyers, tyres, years, yeast, and yells — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in artlessly produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, easy, eats, eras, and last. For points, the strongest plays are aery, ally, arty, aryl, ayes, easy, eyas, eyra, lays, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, rays, rely, ryas, ryes, says, slay, stay, stey, stye, tray, trey, tyer, tyes, tyre, yare, year, yeas, and yell — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling artlessly turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, art, ass, ate, aye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aye, ays, lay, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, say, sly, sty, try, tye, yar, yas, yea, yer, yes, and yet — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artlessly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in artlessly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in artlessly 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.
artlessly 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 two senses for artlessly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
artlessly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing artlessly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is artlessly, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from artlessly 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 artlessly produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 18 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.