unsteadily needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 866 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unsteadily is the highest-scoring word from unsteadily, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 866 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in unsteadily — and it is unsteadily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unsteadily turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sinuately, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsteadily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insulted. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including sedulity, steadily and unitedly.
Rearranging the letters in unsteadily produces 63 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denials, destiny, details, and instead. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including destiny, adenyls and density.
Unscrambling unsteadily turns up 145 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, aliens and delays. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including delays, nudity and stayed.
There are 243 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsteadily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, aisle and alien. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including daily, delay and sadly.
Rearranging the letters in unsteadily produces 247 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants and anus. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including lady, days and deny.
Unscrambling unsteadily turns up 118 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and and. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsteadily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in unsteadily plus one additional letter.
unsteadily 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 unsteadily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
unsteadily is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unsteadily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unsteadily, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unsteadily 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 unsteadily produce 866 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 63 seven-letter words, 145 six-letter words, 243 five-letter words, 247 four-letter words, 118 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.