pillory needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pillory is the highest-scoring word from pillory, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pillory — and it is pillory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pillory. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is roily, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pillory produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pill and roll. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including pily, ploy and poly.
Unscrambling pillory turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, lip and oil. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pry, and yip — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pillory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in pillory plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pillory 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.
pillory 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 four senses for pillory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pillory is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pillory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pillory, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pillory 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 pillory produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.