soldierly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 326 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
soldierly is the highest-scoring word from soldierly, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 326 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in soldierly — and it is soldierly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling soldierly produces exactly one eight-letter word: soldiery. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in soldierly produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soldier. For points, the strongest plays are doylies, ridleys, solidly, and yodlers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling soldierly turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drills and rolled. For points, the strongest plays are direly, drolly, idylls, lordly, odyles, ridley, yields, yodels, yodler, and yodles — 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 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soldierly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dolls, dries, drill, lords, loser, and older. For points, the strongest plays are delly, dilly, doily, dolly, drily, dyers, idyll, idyls, lysed, odyle, odyls, redly, sloyd, yield, yirds, yodel, and yodle — 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 soldierly produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lids, lied, lies, lord, lose, oils, and rely. For points, the strongest plays are odyl, oldy, deys, dory, drys, dyer, dyes, idly, idyl, yeld, yird, and yods — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling soldierly turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dry, dye, ids, ill, led, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, dye, and yod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soldierly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, or, oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 soldierly 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.
soldierly 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 one sense for soldierly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
soldierly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soldierly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is soldierly, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from soldierly 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 soldierly produce 326 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.