Hidden inside marginally sit alarmingly and marginally, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 297 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alarmingly and marginally tie for the highest Scrabble score from marginally at 16 points. The top 10 of 297 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in marginally: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marginally itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alarmingly and marginally, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marginally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarming. For points, the strongest plays are graymail and malignly — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marginally produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mangily and myalgia, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling marginally turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal and laying. For points, the strongest plays are gamily, grimly, margay, and maying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marginally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, alarm and angry. For points, the strongest plays are gamay, grimy, mangy, and mingy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marginally produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, gain and girl. For points, the strongest play is gamy — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling marginally turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and all. For points, the strongest play is gym — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marginally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
marginally 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for marginally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
marginally is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marginally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alarmingly and marginally, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marginally 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 marginally produce 297 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.