grandly needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble YARDGLN, GLYANDR or YARNDGL and you get the same 7 letters as GRANDLY: so the words from GRANDLY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
grandly is the highest-scoring word from grandly, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in grandly — and it is grandly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grandly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry and grand. For points, the strongest play is glady — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grandly produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drag, glad and gray. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including gray, lady and yard.
Unscrambling grandly turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, any and day. For points, the strongest plays are day, dry, gay, and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grandly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in grandly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grandly 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.
grandly 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 grandly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
grandly is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grandly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is grandly, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from grandly 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 grandly produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.