yearningly needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 301 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yearningly is the highest-scoring word from yearningly, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 301 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in yearningly — and it is yearningly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearningly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learning. For points, the strongest plays are layering, relaying, yeanling, yearling, and yearning — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yearningly produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, leaning, and relying. For points, the strongest plays are angerly, angrily, relying, yarning, yealing, and yeaning — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yearningly turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying and nearly. For points, the strongest plays are grayly and greyly — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearningly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel, anger, angle, angry, early, and gayer. For points, the strongest play is gayly — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yearningly produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, girl, gray, grey, lane, and lean. For points, the strongest play is eyry — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yearningly turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, any, are, aye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is yay — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearningly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
yearningly 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 yearningly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
yearningly is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yearningly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yearningly, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yearningly 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 yearningly produce 301 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.