slightly needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slightly is the highest-scoring word from slightly, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in slightly — and it is slightly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in slightly 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 lightly and sightly, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slightly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hills, light and sight. For points, the strongest play is ghyll — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in slightly produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hill, hits and list. For points, the strongest plays are ghis and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling slightly turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit and ill. For points, the strongest plays are shy and thy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slightly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in slightly 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.
slightly 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 two senses for slightly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
slightly is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slightly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is slightly, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from slightly 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 slightly produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.