Hidden inside testily sit stylite and testily, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stylite and testily tie for the highest Scrabble score from testily at 10 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in testily: one comes from rearranging its letters, and testily 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 stylite and testily, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with style and title. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including style, silty and styli.
Rearranging the letters in testily produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies and list. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including leys, lyes and lyse.
Unscrambling testily turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including yes, yet and ley.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in testily plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in testily 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.
testily 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 testily carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for testily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
testily is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing testily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stylite and testily, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from testily 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 testily produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.