greatly needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greatly is the highest-scoring word from greatly, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in greatly — and it is greatly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling greatly turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argyle and gyrate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greatly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and early. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including gayer, agley and glary.
Rearranging the letters in greatly produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, gray and grey. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gray, grey and agly.
Unscrambling greatly turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greatly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in greatly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in greatly 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.
greatly 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 1-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 greatly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
greatly is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greatly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is greatly, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from greatly 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 greatly produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.