fifthly needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 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.
fifthly is the highest-scoring word from fifthly, worth 19 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 fifthly — and it is fifthly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fifthly produces exactly one six-letter word: filthy. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fifthly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fifth, fifty, and filth. For points, the strongest plays are fifth and fifty — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in fifthly 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.
fifthly 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 fifthly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
fifthly is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fifthly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fifthly, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fifthly 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 fifthly 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, 4 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.