Hidden inside weaselly sit walleyes and weaselly, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
walleyes and weaselly tie for the highest Scrabble score from weaselly at 14 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in weaselly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and weaselly 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 walleyes and weaselly, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weaselly produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leeways, walleye, walleys, and weasely, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weaselly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, lease and swell. For points, the strongest plays are wally, welly, wyles, and yawls — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weaselly produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, easy and else. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including ways, sway and waly.
Unscrambling weaselly turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, aye and eye. For points, the strongest plays are way, wye, yaw, and yew — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weaselly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw and ay. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ay and ew.
Swap a single tile in weaselly 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.
weaselly 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.
weaselly is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weaselly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are walleyes and weaselly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from weaselly 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 weaselly produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.