Hidden inside signally sit sallying, signally, and slangily, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sallying, signally, and slangily tie for the highest Scrabble score from signally at 12 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in signally: two come from rearranging its letters, and signally itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sallying, signally, and slangily, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in signally produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allying and slaying, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling signally turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying, lyings, saying, and signal. For points, the strongest plays are gainly, laying, lyings, lysing, saying, singly, and slangy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, lying, nails, and silly. For points, the strongest plays are gaily, gally, gilly, lingy, lying, yagis, and yangs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in signally produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gals, lays, nags, nail, sail, and sang. For points, the strongest plays are agly, gays, sagy, yagi, yags, and yang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling signally turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, any, gal, gas, gay, ill, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in signally and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
signally 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 3-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 signally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
signally is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sallying, signally, and slangily, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signally 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 signally produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.