Hidden inside motely is one standout: motley, a six-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MOTELY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MOTLEY (adjective), composed of diverse elements, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
motley is the highest-scoring word from motely, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling motely produces exactly one six-letter word: motley. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in motely produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with melt and mole. For points, the strongest plays are elmy, moly, and ylem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling motely turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot and met. For points, the strongest play is yom — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my and oy. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in motely plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in motely 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is motley, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from motely 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 motely produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.