Hidden inside singly sit lyings, lysing, and singly, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lyings, lysing, and singly tie for the highest Scrabble score from singly at 10 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in singly: two come from rearranging its letters, and singly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lyings. For points, the strongest plays are lyings, lysing, and singly — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in singly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lying. For points, the strongest plays are lingy and lying — 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 singly produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sign and sing. For points, the strongest plays are inly, liny, syli, and yins — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling singly turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sin. For points, the strongest plays are sly, syn, and yin — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in singly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 singly and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
singly 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 two senses for singly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
singly is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing singly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lyings, lysing, and singly, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from singly 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 singly produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.