Hidden inside tallyer sit alertly and retally, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 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.
Unscramble TEARYLL, REALTYL or EARLYTL and you get the same 7 letters as TALLYER: so the words from TALLYER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
TALLYER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ALERTLY and RETALLY.
alertly and retally tie for the highest Scrabble score from tallyer at 10 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in tallyer produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alertly and retally, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tallyer turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lately, really, and taller. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including lately, really and elytra.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallyer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alley and alter. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including alley, early and layer.
Rearranging the letters in tallyer produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, rate and real. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including rely, tray and year.
Unscrambling tallyer turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are and art. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including aye, lay and try.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallyer. 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.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tallyer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tallyer and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alertly and retally, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tallyer 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 tallyer produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.