litany needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ITANLY, ANITLY or IAYLTN and you get the same 6 letters as LITANY: so the words from LITANY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
litany is the highest-scoring word from litany, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in litany — and it is litany itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litany. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inlay, laity, layin, and linty, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in litany produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nail, tail, and tiny. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including tiny, ayin and inly.
Unscrambling litany turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and lay. For points, the strongest plays are any, lay, nay, and yin — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litany. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
11 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in litany plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in litany and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
litany 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 two senses for litany. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
litany is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing litany unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is litany, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from litany 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 litany produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.