optimally needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 198 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
optimally is the highest-scoring word from optimally, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 198 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in optimally — and it is optimally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optimally produces exactly one eight-letter word: molality. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in optimally produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lamplit and optimal, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optimally turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limply, mopily, and myopia, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optimally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imply, loyal, and pilot. For points, the strongest plays are amply, imply, and palmy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in optimally produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, lamp and limo. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optimally turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, all and ill. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including may, pay and ply.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optimally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in optimally and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
optimally 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 3-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 optimally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
optimally is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing optimally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is optimally, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from optimally 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 optimally produce 198 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.