formidably needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 388 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
formidably is the highest-scoring word from formidably, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 388 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in formidably — and it is formidably itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formidably. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is formably, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in formidably produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are foamily and maybird, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling formidably turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairly, family, forbad, and forbid. For points, the strongest play is modify — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formidably. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badly, board and broad. For points, the strongest plays are filmy, flamy, foamy, and forby — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in formidably produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, bail and bald. For points, the strongest plays are body, doby, flay, and fray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling formidably turns up 100 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fly, foy, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formidably. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and ay. For points, the strongest plays are by and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
formidably 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 formidably. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
formidably is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing formidably unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is formidably, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from formidably 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 formidably produce 388 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 100 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.