dirtily needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dirtily is the highest-scoring word from dirtily, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in dirtily — and it is dirtily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dirtily produces exactly one six-letter word: tidily. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dirtily produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dirt. For points, the strongest plays are idly, idyl, tidy, and yird — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dirtily 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.
dirtily 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 dirtily carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for dirtily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
dirtily is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dirtily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dirtily, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dirtily 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 dirtily produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.