Hidden inside talley sit lately and lealty, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TELLYA, LAYTLE or LAYLTE and you get the same 6 letters as TALLEY: so the words from TALLEY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
TALLEY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LATELY and LEALTY.
lately and lealty tie for the highest Scrabble score from talley at 9 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling talley turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lately. For points, the strongest plays are lately and lealty — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in talley produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, tale and tall. For points, the strongest plays are ally and yell — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling talley turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ate and aye. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including aye, lay and yet.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talley. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in talley plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in talley and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lately and lealty, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from talley 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 talley produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.