crawly needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crawly is the highest-scoring word from crawly, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in crawly — and it is crawly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crawly produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claw and clay. For points, the strongest plays are awry, waly, wary, and yawl — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crawly turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with car, cry and law. For points, the strongest plays are way, wry, and yaw — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in crawly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crawly and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
crawly 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.
crawly is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crawly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crawly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crawly 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 crawly produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.