Hidden inside really sit rallye and really, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rallye and really tie for the highest Scrabble score from really at 9 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in really: one comes from rearranging its letters, and really itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with really. For points, the strongest plays are rallye and really — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in really. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, early, layer, and rally. For points, the strongest plays are alley, early, layer, leary, rally, and relay — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in really produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with real, rely, year, and yell. For points, the strongest plays are aery, ally, aryl, eyra, lyre, rely, yare, year, and yell — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling really turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, aye, ear, era, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are aye, lay, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, yar, yea, and yer — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in really. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each 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 really 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.
really 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for really. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
really is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing really unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rallye and really, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from really 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 really produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.