livelily needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
livelily is the highest-scoring word from livelily, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in livelily — and it is livelily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling livelily turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are evilly, lively, and vilely, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling livelily produces exactly one five-letter word: villi. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in livelily produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, live, vile, and yell. For points, the strongest play is levy — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in livelily and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
livelily 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
livelily is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing livelily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is livelily, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from livelily 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 livelily produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.