dearly needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dearly is the highest-scoring word from dearly, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in dearly — and it is dearly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delay, early, layer, and ready. For points, the strongest plays are deary, delay, deray, lardy, layed, leady, lyard, rayed, ready, and redly — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dearly produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, lady, lead, read, and real. For points, the strongest plays are dray, dyer, lady, yald, yard, and yeld — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dearly turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye, day, dry, dye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in dearly 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.
dearly 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in dearly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for dearly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
dearly is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dearly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dearly, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dearly 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 dearly produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 16 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.