failingly 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, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
failingly is the highest-scoring word from failingly, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in failingly — and it is failingly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling failingly produces exactly one eight-letter word: flailing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in failingly produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with failing, falling, filling, and finally. For points, the strongest plays are flaying and lignify — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling failingly turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with filing, flying, and laying. For points, the strongest plays are faying, flying, and ignify — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with final and lying. For points, the strongest play is filly — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in failingly produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, fall and fill. For points, the strongest play is flay — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling failingly turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, any and fan. For points, the strongest plays are fay and fly — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay, fa, if, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in failingly 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.
failingly 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
failingly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing failingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is failingly, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from failingly 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 failingly produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.