Hidden inside jollity sit jollity and joltily, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
jollity and joltily tie for the highest Scrabble score from jollity at 17 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in jollity: one comes from rearranging its letters, and jollity itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are jollity and joltily, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jollity. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are jolly and jolty, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in jollity produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with till and toll. For points, the strongest plays are jill, jilt, and jolt — 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 jollity turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, joy, lit, lot, oil, and toy. For points, the strongest play is joy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jollity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in jollity 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.
jollity 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 3-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 jollity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
jollity is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing jollity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are jollity and joltily, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from jollity 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 jollity produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.