lottery 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, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LOTYRET, TTERYOL or OTTERYL and you get the same 7 letters as LOTTERY: so the words from LOTTERY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
lottery is the highest-scoring word from lottery, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lottery — and it is lottery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lottery turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rotely, tetryl, and trotyl, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lottery. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is toyer, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lottery produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rely, role, and tore. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including rely, lory and lyre.
Unscrambling lottery turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot and toe. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including toy, try and yet.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lottery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lottery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lottery 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.
lottery 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in lottery carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for lottery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
lottery is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lottery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lottery, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lottery 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 lottery produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.