slowly needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WYLLSO, LOWYSL or LSOYWL and you get the same 6 letters as SLOWLY: so the words from SLOWLY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
slowly is the highest-scoring word from slowly, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in slowly — and it is slowly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowly. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lowly and yowls, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in slowly produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owls and slow. For points, the strongest plays are owly, yowl, and yows — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ow, oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ow, oy, wo, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in slowly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slowly 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.
slowly 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 slowly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
slowly is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slowly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is slowly, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from slowly 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 slowly produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.