Hidden inside nasally sit alanyls and nasally, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alanyls and nasally tie for the highest Scrabble score from nasally at 10 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nasally: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nasally 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 alanyls and nasally, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nasally turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alanyl, allays, anally, and nyalas, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nasally. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allay, asyla, nyala, and sally, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nasally produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lays. For points, the strongest plays are ally, lays, nays, and slay — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nasally turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, any, lay, and say. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including any, lay and say.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nasally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in nasally 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.
nasally 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 2-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 nasally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
nasally is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nasally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alanyls and nasally, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nasally 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 nasally produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.