distantly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distantly is the highest-scoring word from distantly, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in distantly — and it is distantly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in distantly produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distant. For points, the strongest plays are dittany and staidly — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distantly turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with island. For points, the strongest plays are dainty, daylit, and dynast — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distantly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daily, dials, lands, nails, nasty, sadly, and saint. For points, the strongest plays are daily, daisy, ditsy, ditty, idyls, lindy, sadly, sandy, and sayid — 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 distantly produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, days, dial, lads, lady, and laid. For points, the strongest plays are days, idly, idyl, lady, tidy, and yald — 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 distantly turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, any, day, and ids. For points, the strongest play is day — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distantly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, ay, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — 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 distantly 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.
distantly 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 one sense for distantly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
distantly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distantly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is distantly, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from distantly 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 distantly produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.