familiarly needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
familiarly is the highest-scoring word from familiarly, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in familiarly — and it is familiarly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in familiarly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with familiar. For points, the strongest plays are familial, familiar, and milliary — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in familiarly produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is filmily, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling familiarly turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairly and family. For points, the strongest plays are family, firmly, and ramify — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in familiarly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, fairy, mafia, and rally. For points, the strongest plays are filmy and flamy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in familiarly produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, fail and fair. For points, the strongest plays are flay and fray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling familiarly turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and all. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fly, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in familiarly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay, if, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
familiarly 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 2-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 familiarly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
familiarly is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing familiarly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is familiarly, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from familiarly 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 familiarly produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.