narrowly needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
narrowly is the highest-scoring word from narrowly, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in narrowly — and it is narrowly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling narrowly turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with narrow. For points, the strongest plays are arrowy and yarrow — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in narrowly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with worry. For points, the strongest plays are lawny, noway, rawly, wanly, and worry — 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 narrowly produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lawn, loan, only, oral, warn, and worn. For points, the strongest plays are awny, awry, owly, waly, wany, wary, yawl, yawn, and yowl — each 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 narrowly turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, law, lay, low, nor, now, and owl. For points, the strongest plays are way, wry, wyn, yaw, and yow — each 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 narrowly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, ay, no, on, or, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, ow, oy, wo, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
narrowly 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 narrowly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
narrowly is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing narrowly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is narrowly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from narrowly 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 narrowly produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.