gully needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gully is the highest-scoring word from gully, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in gully — and it is gully itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gully produces 2 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ugly, 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 gully turns up 3 three-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: guy, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Swap a single tile in gully and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
gully 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 one sense for gully. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gully is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gully unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gully, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gully 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 gully produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words and 3 three-letter words.