Hidden inside gullies sit gullies and ligules, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SIGUELL, USEGLIL or ILUGELS and you get the same 7 letters as GULLIES: so the words from GULLIES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
gullies and ligules tie for the highest Scrabble score from gullies at 8 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gullies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gullies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gullies and ligules, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gullies turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are guiles, ligule, and uglies, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gullies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including glues, gills and guile.
Rearranging the letters in gullies produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glue, legs, lies, and sell. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including glue, legs and egis.
Unscrambling gullies turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, leg and lie. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including leg, gel and gie.
Swap a single tile in gullies 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.
gullies 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 4-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 gullies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
gullies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gullies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gullies and ligules, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gullies 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 gullies produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.