flyby needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 3 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flyby is the highest-scoring word from flyby, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 3 of 3 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in flyby — and it is flyby itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling flyby produces exactly one three-letter word: fly. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling flyby produces exactly one two-letter word: by. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in flyby and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
flyby 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in flyby carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
flyby is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing flyby unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is flyby, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from flyby 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 flyby produce 3 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 three-letter word and 1 two-letter word.