similarly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
similarly is the highest-scoring word from similarly, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in similarly — and it is similarly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling similarly produces exactly one eight-letter word: milliary. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in similarly produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with similar. For points, the strongest plays are miliary, misally, and slimily — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling similarly turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lyrism, mislay, mylars, and slimly, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in similarly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liars, mails and malls. For points, the strongest plays are amyls, marly, mylar, and slimy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in similarly produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including army, mays and amyl.
Unscrambling similarly turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and all. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in similarly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in similarly and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
similarly 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 one sense for similarly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
similarly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing similarly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is similarly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from similarly 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 similarly produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.