tellingly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tellingly is the highest-scoring word from tellingly, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tellingly — and it is tellingly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tellingly produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with telling and yelling. For points, the strongest play is yelling — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tellingly turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gently. For points, the strongest plays are gently, glinty, and tingly — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tellingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lying and tying. For points, the strongest plays are eying, gelly, gilly, gynie, lingy, lying, and tying — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tellingly produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, line, tell, till, tiny, and yell. For points, the strongest play is gley — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tellingly turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, ill, leg, let, lie, lit, and net. For points, the strongest play is gey — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tellingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tellingly and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tellingly 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 tellingly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tellingly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tellingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tellingly, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tellingly 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 tellingly produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.