optionally needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
optionally is the highest-scoring word from optionally, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in optionally — and it is optionally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optionally produces exactly one nine-letter word: polytonal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optionally. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pliantly and ponytail, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in optionally produces 7 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 inaptly, loopily, plainly, and ptyalin, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optionally turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotion, option, and pointy. For points, the strongest plays are painty, pointy, polity, and polyol — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optionally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loyal, paint and piano. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including aptly, atopy and loopy.
Rearranging the letters in optionally produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, lion and loan. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including pity, play and pony.
Unscrambling optionally turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant and any. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including pay, ply and pya.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optionally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
optionally 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 optionally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
optionally is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing optionally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is optionally, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from optionally 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 optionally produce 259 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.