courtly needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courtly is the highest-scoring word from courtly, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in courtly — and it is courtly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling courtly turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are curtly 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courtly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with court, curly, and truly. For points, the strongest plays are curly 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 courtly produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cult, curl, tour, and your. For points, the strongest plays are cloy, coly, and cory — 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 courtly turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, cut, lot, our, out, toy, and try. 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courtly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in courtly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in courtly 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.
courtly 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 courtly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
courtly is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courtly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is courtly, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from courtly 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 courtly produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.