Hidden inside meagerly sit meagerly and meagrely, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meagerly and meagrely tie for the highest Scrabble score from meagerly at 14 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in meagerly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and meagerly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meagerly and meagrely, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in meagerly produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is eagerly, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling meagerly turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merely. For points, the strongest plays are gamely and gleamy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meagerly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, early, gayer, lamer, large, layer, and merge. For points, the strongest plays are gamey and germy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in meagerly produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, game, germ, gray, grey, lame, and male. For points, the strongest play is gamy — 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 meagerly turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, arm, aye, ear, era, and eye. For points, the strongest play is gym — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meagerly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in meagerly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in meagerly 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.
meagerly 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 meagerly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
meagerly is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meagerly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meagerly and meagrely, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meagerly 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 meagerly produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.