167 words come out when you unscramble QUAKINGLY, starting with QUAKINGLY itself: 26 in Scrabble, 29 in Words With Friends. QUAKILY is the best of the shorter words, at 23 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from QUAKINGLY split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 9 with 6, 32 with 5, 60 with 4, 42 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble QUAKINGLY, QUAKY leads with 21 points, then GUQIN on 15 and QUAIL on 14. LYING, ALIGN and INLAY are the familiar ones.
QUAY tops the 4-letter words from QUAKINGLY at 16 points; next come QUAG on 14 and QUAI on 13. LINK, KING and GAIN will look familiar.
Keep every letter of QUAKINGLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with QU · ending in LY · all 9-letter words
What QUAKINGLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
QUAKINGLY is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUAKINGLY itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 167) | 125 | 166 | 111 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
41 of the 167 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GUQIN, QUINA, KYANG, QIN, AKING, GLAIK, KAING, KLANG, KYU, KANG, KNAG, KULAN and 29 more. 14 of the 167 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: QUAKINGLY, YUKING, KYLIN, QI, GANK, KUNA, LAYIN, YAG, KI, AGLU, NUG, GI and 2 more. 1 of the 167 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: UGLI.