Hidden inside coarsely sit caloyers and coarsely, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caloyers and coarsely tie for the highest Scrabble score from coarsely at 13 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in coarsely: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coarsely itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caloyers and coarsely, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in coarsely produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is caloyer, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling coarsely turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clears, closer, and layers. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including calory, creasy and cresyl.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, clear and close. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including scary, acyls and clary.
Rearranging the letters in coarsely produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, care and cars. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including clay, acyl and cays.
Unscrambling coarsely turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye and car. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, and cry — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarsely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ay and or. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ay, oy and yo.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in coarsely plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in coarsely and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
coarsely 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 one sense for coarsely. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
coarsely is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coarsely unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caloyers and coarsely, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coarsely 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 coarsely produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.