pulley needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PULELY, LYUPLE or EYLULP and you get the same 6 letters as PULLEY: so the words from PULLEY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
pulley is the highest-scoring word from pulley, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in pulley — and it is pulley itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pulley plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pulley 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.
pulley 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 pulley. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pulley is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pulley unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pulley, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pulley 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 pulley produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.