tolerably needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 301 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tolerably is the highest-scoring word from tolerably, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 301 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tolerably — and it is tolerably itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerably. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lobately and oblately, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tolerably produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loyaler. For points, the strongest play is tallboy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tolerably turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ballet, barely and betray. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including barely, betray and barley.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerably. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abort and alert. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including belly, bally and barye.
Rearranging the letters in tolerably produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ball and bare. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including ably, abye and bray.
Unscrambling tolerably turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are and art. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including bay, boy and bye.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerably. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay and be. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tolerably 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.
tolerably 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 2-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 tolerably. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
tolerably is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tolerably unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tolerably, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tolerably 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 tolerably produce 301 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.