Hidden inside souly is one standout: lousy, a five-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LYOUS, SLOUY or YOULS and you get the same 5 letters as SOULY: so the words from SOULY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
SOULY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LOUSY (adjective), mean or contemptible, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
lousy is the highest-scoring word from souly, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling souly produces exactly one five-letter word: lousy. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in souly and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lousy, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from souly 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 souly produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.