Unscramble COSTALLY and you have 180 words, COSTALLY itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are COSTLY, OCTYLS and SCALLY, 11 points each. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from COSTALLY by length: 1 with 8 letters, 12 with 6, 52 with 5, 60 with 4, 41 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 7 letters.
8 of 52 5-letter words in COSTALLY tie at 10 points; none scores more. LOCAL, COAST and CALLS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble COSTALLY, 9 score 9 points, the group's best. ALSO, LAST and CALL are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of COSTALLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with CO · ending in LY · all 8-letter words
COSTALLY first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: COSTALLY is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| COSTALLY itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 180) | 152 | 180 | 138 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 28 of them: SCALLY, SALTLY, CLY, LYSOL, OCTALS, STYLO, TOLLY, ALCOS, ATOCS, CLATS, COLLS, LOYS and 16 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: COSTALLY, TALCY, CALOS, OATY, CALS, LOCS, SOCA, YAS, CAL, LOC, LOTSA, SOC and 2 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of COSTALLY and one more.