hollowly needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hollowly is the highest-scoring word from hollowly, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hollowly — and it is hollowly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hollowly. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holly, hooly, lowly, and wooly, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hollowly and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
hollowly 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 hollowly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
hollowly is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hollowly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hollowly, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hollowly 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 hollowly produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.