stubbornly needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 300 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stubbornly is the highest-scoring word from stubbornly, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 300 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in stubbornly — and it is stubbornly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stubbornly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stubborn. For points, the strongest play is robustly — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stubbornly produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is stubbly, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stubbornly turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with busboy. For points, 8 words tie at 13 points, including busboy, burbly and nubbly.
There are 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stubbornly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bonus, burns and burnt. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including lobby, busby and nobby.
Rearranging the letters in stubbornly produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with born, boys and buns. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including boys, bury and busy.
Unscrambling stubbornly turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boy, bun and bus. For points, the strongest plays are boy, buy, bys, and yob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stubbornly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, no and on. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
stubbornly 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 4-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 stubbornly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
stubbornly is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stubbornly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stubbornly, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stubbornly 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 stubbornly produce 300 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.