rallyings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rallyings is the highest-scoring word from rallyings, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in rallyings — and it is rallyings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rallyings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rallying, sallying, signally, and slangily, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rallyings produces 5 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 allying, angrily, argylls and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rallyings turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grills, laying and lyings. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including laying, lyings and saying.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rallyings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry, gains and girls. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including angry, lying and gaily.
Rearranging the letters in rallyings produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, gain and gals. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including gray, agly and gays.
Unscrambling rallyings turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all and any. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rallyings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rallyings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rallyings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
rallyings 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 three senses for rallyings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
rallyings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rallyings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rallyings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rallyings 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 rallyings produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.