literally needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
literally is the highest-scoring word from literally, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in literally — and it is literally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in literally produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reality. For points, the strongest plays are alertly, irately, reality, retally, and tearily — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling literally turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lately, really, and taller. For points, the strongest plays are aerily, artily, elytra, lately, leally, lealty, lyrate, rallye, really, and realty — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alley, alter, early, later, layer, and rally. For points, the strongest plays are alley, allyl, early, lairy, laity, layer, leary, lyart, rally, relay, riley, riyal, tally, teary, and telly — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in literally produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, liar, rate, real, rely, tail, and tale. For points, the strongest plays are aery, airy, ally, arty, aryl, eyra, illy, lily, lyre, rely, tray, trey, tyer, tyre, yare, year, yell, yeti, and yill — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling literally turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all, are, art, ate, aye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aye, lay, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, try, tye, yar, yea, yer, and yet — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in literally and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
literally 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 two senses for literally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
literally is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing literally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is literally, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from literally 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 literally produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.