ruttily needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ruttily is the highest-scoring word from ruttily, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ruttily — and it is ruttily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ruttily produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ruly and yurt, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ruttily plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ruttily and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ruttily 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.
ruttily is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ruttily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ruttily, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ruttily 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 ruttily produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.