Hidden inside untimely sit minutely and untimely, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
minutely and untimely tie for the highest Scrabble score from untimely at 13 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in untimely: one comes from rearranging its letters, and untimely itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are minutely and untimely, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling untimely turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minute. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including enmity, mutely and mutiny.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untimely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with until. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including limey, meiny and melty.
Rearranging the letters in untimely produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lent and line. For points, the strongest plays are elmy, limy, mity, and ylem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling untimely turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lie and lit. For points, the strongest play is yum — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untimely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and me. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in untimely and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
untimely 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 three senses for untimely. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
untimely is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing untimely unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are minutely and untimely, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from untimely 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 untimely produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.