aurally needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aurally is the highest-scoring word from aurally, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in aurally — and it is aurally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aurally produces exactly one six-letter word: alular. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aurally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rally. For points, the strongest plays are alary, allay, and rally — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aurally produces 6 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 ally, aryl, raya, and ruly, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in aurally 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.
aurally 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for aurally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
aurally is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aurally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aurally, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aurally 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 aurally produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.