Hidden inside idlying is one standout: dingily, a seven-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DIGINLY, LYINGDI or LIDYING and you get the same 7 letters as IDLYING: so the words from IDLYING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
IDLYING isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DINGILY (adverb), in a dingy manner, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
dingily is the highest-scoring word from idlying, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling idlying produces exactly one seven-letter word: dingily. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling idlying produces exactly one six-letter word: idling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idlying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dying and lying. For points, the strongest plays are dingy and dying — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in idlying produces 8 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idly and idyl, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in idlying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in idlying 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dingily, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from idlying 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 idlying produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.