measly needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
measly is the highest-scoring word from measly, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in measly — and it is measly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with males and meals. For points, the strongest plays are amyls, mealy, samey, seamy, and ylems — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in measly produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easy, lame, lays, male, mays, meal, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are amyl, elmy, mays, yams, and ylem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling measly turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aye, lay, may, say, sea, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, 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.
Swap a single tile in measly and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
measly 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 1-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 measly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
measly is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing measly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is measly, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from measly 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 measly produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.