courteously needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 560 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courteously is the highest-scoring word from courteously, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 560 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in courteously — and it is courteously itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling courteously turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are courteous and outsource, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courteously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courtesy and cultures. For points, the strongest plays are clustery, courtesy, crousely, and locutory — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in courteously produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closure, coolest, culture, and scooter. For points, the strongest plays are clyster, courtly, coyotes, cruelty, curtesy, curtsey, cutlery, cytosol, and oocytes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling courteously turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, closet, colors, cooler, course, courts, and cuteys. For points, the strongest plays are cooeys, costly, coyest, coyote, cresyl, crusty, curtly, curtsy, cutely, cutesy, cuteys, octyls, oocyst, oocyte, and outcry — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 148 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courteously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, clues, color, cools, cores, court, and cruel. For points, the strongest plays are cloys, cooey, cooly, corys, cosey, coyer, curly, cutey, and octyl — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in courteously produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lose, lost, lots, lure, ours, and rely. For points, the strongest plays are scry, cloy, coly, cory, cosy, coys, cyst, and syce — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling courteously turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, cue, cut, let, lot, our, and out. For points, the strongest plays are coy and cry — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courteously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, so, to, us, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
courteously 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 3-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 courteously. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
courteously is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courteously unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is courteously, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from courteously 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 courteously produce 560 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 148 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.