Hidden inside priestly sit priestly and spritely, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
priestly and spritely tie for the highest Scrabble score from priestly at 13 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in priestly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and priestly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are priestly and spritely, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in priestly produces 4 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 pyrites and stripey, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling priestly turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, stripe, and triple. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including peltry, pertly and plyers.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in priestly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piles, slept and spelt. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including types, pesty and piety.
Rearranging the letters in priestly produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies and lips. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including pity, type and espy.
Unscrambling priestly turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including spy, yep and ply.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in priestly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in priestly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in priestly and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
priestly 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 two senses for priestly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
priestly is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing priestly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are priestly and spritely, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from priestly 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 priestly produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.