certainly 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, 441 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certainly is the highest-scoring word from certainly, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 441 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in certainly — and it is certainly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is literacy, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in certainly produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, central and certain. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including anticly, clarity and clayier.
Unscrambling certainly turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with client, nearly, and nicely. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including nicely, acetyl and cairny.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alien and alter. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including lyric, canty and carny.
Rearranging the letters in certainly produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and cent. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including city, clay and acyl.
Unscrambling certainly turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cay, cry, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. 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 certainly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in certainly 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.
certainly 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 2-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 certainly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
certainly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing certainly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is certainly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from certainly 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 certainly produce 441 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.