sallies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sallies is the highest-scoring word from sallies, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in sallies — and it is sallies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sallies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, sails and sales. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including aisle, sails and sales.
Rearranging the letters in sallies produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies and sail. For points, 26 words tie at 4 points, including less, lies and sail.
Unscrambling sallies turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ass and ill. For points, 21 words tie at 3 points, including all, ass and ill.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sallies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sallies 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.
sallies 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for sallies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
sallies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sallies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sallies, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sallies 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 sallies produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.