willies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LLEWSII, ILLIWES or SIELLIW and you get the same 7 letters as WILLIES: so the words from WILLIES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
willies is the highest-scoring word from willies, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in willies — and it is willies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in willies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swell, wells, and wills. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including swell, wells and wills.
Rearranging the letters in willies produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, sell and well. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including well, will and wise.
Swap a single tile in willies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
willies 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 willies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
willies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing willies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is willies, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from willies 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 willies produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.