Hidden inside partly sit paltry, partly, and raptly, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paltry, partly, and raptly tie for the highest Scrabble score from partly at 11 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in partly: two come from rearranging its letters, and partly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paltry, partly, and raptly, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in partly produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, play and pray. For points, the strongest plays are paly, paty, play, and pray — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling partly turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, lap and lay. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including pay, ply and pry.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in partly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in partly and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
partly 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 partly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
partly is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing partly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paltry, partly, and raptly, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from partly 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 partly produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.