Unscramble MEANLY and you have 84 words, MEANLY itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 11 points: LAYMEN and NAMELY. The best shorter words score 10: 5 of them, MANLY, MEANY and MEALY included. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from MEANLY by length: 3 with 6 letters, 7 with 5, 27 with 4, 29 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Keep every letter of MEANLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with ME · ending in LY · all 6-letter words
What MEANLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
MEANLY works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEANLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 84) | 63 | 84 | 63 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: YEALM, LYAM, LYME, MYAL, YELM, LEANY, LYM, NYM, LYNE, YALE, LEAM, MELA and 9 more, 21 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of MEANLY spell the words below.