frontally needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
frontally is the highest-scoring word from frontally, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in frontally — and it is frontally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in frontally produces 2 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 frontal and tonally, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling frontally turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flatly and floaty, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in frontally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with float, forty and front. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including forty, fatly and folly.
Rearranging the letters in frontally produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fall, flat and fort. For points, the strongest plays are flay and fray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling frontally turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant and any. 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 frontally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ay, of and oy.
frontally 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 frontally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
frontally is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing frontally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is frontally, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from frontally 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 frontally produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.