steadily needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 331 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
steadily is the highest-scoring word from steadily, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 331 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in steadily — and it is steadily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steadily produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details. For points, the strongest plays are dialyse and staidly — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steadily turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delays, detail and easily. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including delays, stayed and steady.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside and daily. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including daily, delay and sadly.
Rearranging the letters in steadily produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date and days. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including days, dyes and lady.
Unscrambling steadily turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ate. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in steadily plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steadily and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
steadily 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 steadily carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for steadily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
steadily is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steadily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is steadily, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from steadily 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 steadily produce 331 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.