Hidden inside sallied sit dallies and sallied, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dallies and sallied tie for the highest Scrabble score from sallied at 8 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sallied: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sallied itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dallies and sallied, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sallied turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ladies and sailed. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ladies, sailed and aisled.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sallied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside and deals. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including aside, deals and delis.
Rearranging the letters in sallied produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, deal and deli. For points, 32 words tie at 5 points, including aids, deal and deli.
Unscrambling sallied turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and all. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sallied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sallied plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sallied 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.
sallied 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sallied is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sallied unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dallies and sallied, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sallied 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 sallied produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.