Hidden inside likably sit balkily and likably, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
balkily and likably tie for the highest Scrabble score from likably at 16 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in likably: one comes from rearranging its letters, and likably 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 balkily and likably, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likably. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is balky, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in likably produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, ball, bill, and kill. For points, the strongest plays are alky and laky — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling likably turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, bay and ill. For points, the strongest plays are kay and yak — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likably. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay and by. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in likably plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in likably 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.
likably is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
likably is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing likably unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are balkily and likably, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from likably 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 likably produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.