Hidden inside miserly sit miserly and misrely, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
miserly and misrely tie for the highest Scrabble score from miserly at 12 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in miserly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and miserly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are miserly and misrely, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling miserly turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with misery and smiley. For points, the strongest plays are limeys, lyrism, misery, and smiley — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in miserly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles and smile. For points, the strongest plays are limey, slimy, 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 miserly produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, mile, rely, rise, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are elmy, limy, miry, rimy, 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 miserly turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, sir, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are ley, lye, rye, sly, yer, and yes — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in miserly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, 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 miserly 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.
miserly 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 miserly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
miserly is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing miserly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are miserly and misrely, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from miserly 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 miserly produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.