monthly needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HOLTNYM, HYTMONL or TONYHLM and you get the same 7 letters as MONTHLY: so the words from MONTHLY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
monthly is the highest-scoring word from monthly, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in monthly — and it is monthly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling monthly produces exactly one six-letter word: thymol. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in monthly produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holy, myth, and only. For points, the strongest plays are homy, hymn, and myth — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling monthly turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, lot and not. For points, the strongest plays are hoy and thy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monthly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hm, ho and my. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in monthly 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.
monthly 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 three senses for monthly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
monthly is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing monthly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is monthly, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from monthly 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 monthly produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.