Hidden inside tallyho sit loathly and tallyho, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loathly and tallyho tie for the highest Scrabble score from tallyho at 13 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tallyho: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tallyho itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are loathly and tallyho, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tallyho produces exactly one six-letter word: hallot. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallyho. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altho and loyal. For points, the strongest plays are holly, hotly, and lathy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tallyho produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, hall and holy. For points, the strongest plays are ahoy, holy, hoya, and hyla — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tallyho turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, hat and hay. For points, the strongest plays are hay, hoy, thy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallyho. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and ay. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and ha.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in tallyho plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tallyho 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.
tallyho 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 tallyho carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tallyho is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tallyho unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loathly and tallyho, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tallyho 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 tallyho produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 14 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.