richly needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LICHRY, LIRCHY or CHRYLI and you get the same 6 letters as RICHLY: so the words from RICHLY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
richly is the highest-scoring word from richly, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in richly — and it is richly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling richly produces exactly one five-letter word: lyric. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in richly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in richly 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.
richly 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in richly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for richly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
richly is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing richly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is richly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from richly 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 richly produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.