thusly needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
thusly is the highest-scoring word from thusly, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in thusly — and it is thusly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thusly. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tushy, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in thusly 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.
thusly 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 thusly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for thusly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
thusly is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thusly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is thusly, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thusly 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 thusly produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.