167 words come out when you unscramble ROUTOUSLY, starting with ROUTOUSLY itself: 12 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
R1O1U12T1O1U12S1L12Y43
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ROUTOUSLY by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 8 with 6, 46 with 5, 60 with 4, 36 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 8 letters.
46 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ROUTOUSLY; 21 of them share the top score of 8. TOOLS, STORY and TOURS are everyday picks.
Among 60 4-letter words from ROUTOUSLY, the top score is 7, reached by 15. TOYS, SORT and LOST are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of ROUTOUSLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with RO · ending in LY · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ROOTSY, SOURLY, STOURY and SULTRY (9 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: ROUTOUSLY is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROUTOUSLY itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 167) | 129 | 167 | 118 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 38 of them: ROUTOUSLY, STOOLY, YOURTS, ROYST, STYLO, TOUSY, YOURT, LOYS, OOSY, ROUTOUS, TORULUS, LOY and 26 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: ROOTSY, RYUS, YOUS, OUTROS, RYU, OUTRO, LOTO, ROOS, TROU, LOR and ROO.
This word takes every letter of ROUTOUSLY plus a single extra one.