damningly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damningly is the highest-scoring word from damningly, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in damningly — and it is damningly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in damningly produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damning and landing. For points, the strongest play is mangily — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling damningly turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying and naming. For points, the strongest play is digamy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damningly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daily, dying, lying, and manly. For points, the strongest plays are dimly, madly, mangy, and mingy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in damningly produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damn, dial and gain. For points, the strongest play is gamy — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling damningly turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, the strongest play is gym — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damningly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in damningly 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.
damningly 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
damningly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing damningly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is damningly, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from damningly 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 damningly produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.