Hidden inside gutsily sit gustily and gutsily, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 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.
gustily and gutsily tie for the highest Scrabble score from gutsily at 11 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 gutsily: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gutsily 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 gustily and gutsily, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gutsily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilt. For points, the strongest plays are gusty and gutsy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gutsily produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guts, guys and list. For points, the strongest plays are guys and ugly — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gutsily turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gut, guy and its. For points, the strongest play is guy — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in gutsily plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gutsily 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.
gutsily 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.
gutsily is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gutsily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gustily and gutsily, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gutsily 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 gutsily produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.