hilly needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 8 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hilly is the highest-scoring word from hilly, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 8 of 8 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in hilly — and it is hilly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hilly produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hill. For points, the strongest plays are hill, illy, lily, and yill — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hilly produces exactly one three-letter word: ill. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 3 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hilly. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: hi, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in hilly 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.
hilly 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hilly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hilly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
hilly is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hilly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hilly, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hilly 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 hilly produce 8 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 1 three-letter word and 2 two-letter words.