ashamedly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 292 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ashamedly is the highest-scoring word from ashamedly, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 292 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ashamedly — and it is ashamedly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ashamedly produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashamed. For points, the strongest plays are ashamed and lamedhs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ashamedly turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delays and medals. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including emdash, lamedh and malady.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ashamedly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahead, deals and delay. For points, the strongest plays are mashy and meshy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ashamedly produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, days and deal. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including hays, yeah and ashy.
Unscrambling ashamedly turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, ads and aha. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and shy.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ashamedly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and am. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ashamedly 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.
ashamedly 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in ashamedly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ashamedly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
ashamedly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ashamedly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ashamedly, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ashamedly 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 ashamedly produce 292 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.