softly 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, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble STYLFO, LOFYTS or LSFOTY and you get the same 6 letters as SOFTLY: so the words from SOFTLY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
softly is the highest-scoring word from softly, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in softly — and it is softly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in softly. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lofty and softy, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in softly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of, oy and so. For points, the strongest plays are of, oy, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in softly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in softly 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.
softly 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in softly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for softly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
softly is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing softly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is softly, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from softly 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 softly produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.