volleying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
volleying is the highest-scoring word from volleying, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in volleying — and it is volleying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in volleying. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is lovingly, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in volleying produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with yelling. For points, the strongest play is levying — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling volleying turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lonely, lovely, and loving. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including lovely, evilly and lively.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in volleying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with given, glove and lying. For points, the strongest play is vying — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in volleying produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, give and gone. For points, the strongest play is gyve — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling volleying turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, ill and leg. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in volleying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in volleying 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.
volleying 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
volleying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing volleying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is volleying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from volleying 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 volleying produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.