Hidden inside tartly sit rattly and tartly, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rattly and tartly tie for the highest Scrabble score from tartly at 9 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tartly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tartly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rattly and tartly, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartly. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lyart, lytta, ratty, and tarty, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tartly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tartly 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.
tartly 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 tartly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tartly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tartly is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tartly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rattly and tartly, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tartly 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 tartly produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.