Hidden inside rallye sit rallye and really, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rallye and really tie for the highest Scrabble score from rallye at 9 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in rallye: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rallye itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with really. For points, the strongest plays are rallye and really — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rallye. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, early, layer, and rally. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including alley, early and layer.
Rearranging the letters in rallye produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with real, rely, year, and yell. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including rely, year and yell.
Unscrambling rallye turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are and aye. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including aye, lay and ley.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rallye. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
12 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in rallye plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rallye 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.
rallye 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.
rallye is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rallye unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rallye and really, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rallye 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 rallye produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.