shallowly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shallowly is the highest-scoring word from shallowly, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shallowly — and it is shallowly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shallowly produces exactly one eight-letter word: sallowly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shallowly produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shallow. For points, the strongest plays are hallows, sallowy, and shallow — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shallowly turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows and slowly. For points, the strongest play is wholly — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallowly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, halls and loyal. For points, the strongest plays are hwyls, showy, and washy — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shallowly produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, also and hall. For points, the strongest plays are hwyl and whys — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shallowly turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ash and has. For points, the strongest play is why — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallowly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and aw. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and ay.
shallowly 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for shallowly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
shallowly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shallowly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shallowly, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shallowly 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 shallowly produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.