bullies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bullies is the highest-scoring word from bullies, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in bullies — and it is bullies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bullies produces exactly one six-letter word: libels. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bullies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bells, bills, blues, and bulls. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including bells, bills and blues.
Rearranging the letters in bullies produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bell, bill and blue. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including bell, bill and blue.
Unscrambling bullies turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, ill and lie. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including bus, sub and bel.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bullies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in bullies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bullies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bullies 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for bullies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
bullies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bullies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bullies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bullies 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 bullies produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.