Hidden inside strongly sit strongly and strongyl, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strongly and strongyl tie for the highest Scrabble score from strongly at 12 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in strongly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strongly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strongly. For points, the strongest plays are strongly and strongyl — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling strongly turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strong. For points, the strongest play is gyrons — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strongly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glory and story. For points, the strongest plays are glory, gorsy, gynos, gyron, gyros, and stogy — 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 strongly produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with logs, long, lost, lots, only, orgy, and slot. For points, the strongest plays are gory, goys, gyno, gyro, logy, and orgy — 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 strongly turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, log, lot, nor, not, son, and soy. For points, the strongest play is goy — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strongly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, or, oy, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are oy 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 strongly 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.
strongly 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for strongly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
strongly is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strongly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strongly and strongyl, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strongly 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 strongly produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.