Hidden inside topically sit allotypic, optically, and topically, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allotypic, optically, and topically tie for the highest Scrabble score from topically at 16 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in topically: two come from rearranging its letters, and topically itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allotypic, optically, and topically, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in topically. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coitally and locality, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in topically produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with typical. For points, the strongest plays are opacity and typical — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling topically turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with policy. For points, the strongest plays are atypic and policy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in topically. If a familiar word is all you need, start with local, loyal, pilot, and topic. For points, the strongest plays are copay and typic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in topically produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, city, clap, clay, clip, coat, and cola. For points, the strongest plays are copy, pacy, and pyic — each 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 topically turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, all, cap, cat, cop, ill, and lap. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, icy, pay, ply, pya, yap, and yip — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in topically. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, it, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in topically plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in topically 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.
topically 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 3-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 topically. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
topically is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing topically unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allotypic, optically, and topically, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from topically 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 topically produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.