generally needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
generally is the highest-scoring word from generally, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in generally — and it is generally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling generally produces exactly one eight-letter word: allergen. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in generally produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allergy, gallery, and general. For points, the strongest plays are allergy, angerly, eagerly, gallery, greenly, langley, largely, and regally — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling generally turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with energy, nearly, and really. For points, the strongest plays are anergy, argyle, argyll, energy, galley, gnarly, greeny, and gyrene — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alley, angel, anger, angle, angry, and early. For points, the strongest plays are agley, angry, elegy, gally, gayer, gelly, glary, gyral, rangy, and yager — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in generally produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gene, gray, grey, lane, lean, and near. For points, the strongest plays are agly, gley, gray, grey, gyre, yage, and yang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling generally turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all, any, are, aye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in generally 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.
generally 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for generally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
generally is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing generally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is generally, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from generally 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 generally produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.