Hidden inside deeply sit deeply and yelped, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deeply and yelped tie for the highest Scrabble score from deeply at 12 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in deeply: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deeply itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeply. For points, the strongest plays are deeply and yelped — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deeply produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, peed, and peel. For points, the strongest play is yelp — 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 deeply turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dye, eye, led, pee, and yep. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pye, and yep — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deeply. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, 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 deeply 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.
deeply 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for deeply. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
deeply is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deeply unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deeply and yelped, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deeply 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 deeply produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.