159 words come out when you unscramble POPULARLY, starting with POPULARLY itself: 16 in Scrabble, 20 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, PROPYLA leads with 14 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from POPULARLY split into 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 13 with 6, 31 with 5, 48 with 4, 47 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
31 5-letter words from POPULARLY; 6 of them share the top score of 12. APPLY, ROYAL and RALLY are everyday picks.
Among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble POPULARLY, YAPP leads with 11 points, then PALY and PLAY on 9. ORAL, ROLL and POLL are the familiar ones.
Of the 47 3-letter words from POPULARLY, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. ALL, PAY and PRO are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of POPULARLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PO · ending in LY · all 9-letter words
What POPULARLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. POPULARLY is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POPULARLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 159) | 116 | 158 | 104 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
43 of the 159 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: APPUY, PURPY, PROLLY, YAPP, PARLY, POLLY, PULLY, PYRAL, UPLAY, ALLYOU, APPRO, LAURYL and 31 more. 11 of the 159 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PYRO, ROLLUP, APP, PULAO, RYU, APO, OPA, URP, PO, ARO and LOR. 1 of the 159 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: LARP.