Hidden inside nastily sit nastily and saintly, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nastily and saintly tie for the highest Scrabble score from nastily at 10 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nastily: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nastily 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 nastily and saintly, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nastily turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inlays, layins, litany and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nastily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nails, nasty and saint. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including nasty, salty and antsy.
Rearranging the letters in nastily produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, last and lays. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including lays, stay and tiny.
Unscrambling nastily turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and its. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including any, lay and say.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nastily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in nastily plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nastily 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.
nastily 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 nastily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
nastily is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nastily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nastily and saintly, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nastily 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 nastily produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.