federally 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, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
federally is the highest-scoring word from federally, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in federally — and it is federally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling federally produces exactly one eight-letter word: alderfly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in federally produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with federal. For points, the strongest play is deerfly — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling federally turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dealer and feared. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including deafly, defray and flayed.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in federally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, delay and early. For points, the strongest play is fayed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in federally produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf and deal. For points, the strongest play is defy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling federally turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are and aye. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, fly, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in federally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ay, ef and fa.
Swap a single tile in federally 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.
federally 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 federally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
federally is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing federally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is federally, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from federally 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 federally produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.