formulary needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
formulary is the highest-scoring word from formulary, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in formulary — and it is formulary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in formulary produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with formula. For points, the strongest plays are armoury and formula — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling formulary turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is formyl, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formulary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marry, mayor and moral. For points, the strongest plays are flamy and foamy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in formulary produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, farm and foam. For points, the strongest play is fumy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling formulary turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, far and flu. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fly, foy, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formulary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
formulary 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 two senses for formulary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
formulary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing formulary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is formulary, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from formulary 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 formulary produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.