preferably needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preferably is the highest-scoring word from preferably, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in preferably — and it is preferably itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preferably. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is peaberry, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preferably produces 6 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 fryable and palfrey, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preferably turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barely, barrel and player. For points, the strongest plays are barfly, belfry, and feebly — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preferably. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, barer and early. For points, the strongest play is beefy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preferably produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare and bear. For points, the strongest plays are flay, fley, and fray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preferably turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and aye. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, fly, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preferably. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay, be, and by. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
preferably 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 one sense for preferably. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
preferably is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preferably unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is preferably, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from preferably 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 preferably produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.