southerly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 413 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
southerly is the highest-scoring word from southerly, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 413 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in southerly — and it is southerly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southerly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hostelry, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in southerly produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shortly. For points, the strongest plays are helotry, hurleys, shortly, and tushery — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling southerly turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels, others and result. For points, 14 words tie at 12 points, including theory, youths and ethyls.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southerly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, horse and hotel. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including shyer, youth and ethyl.
Rearranging the letters in southerly produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lose and lost. For points, the strongest plays are holy, hoys, hyte, and they — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling southerly turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hey and hot. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hey, shy and thy.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southerly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and ho. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and ho.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in southerly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in southerly 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.
southerly 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 southerly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for southerly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
southerly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing southerly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is southerly, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from southerly 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 southerly produce 413 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.