Unscramble TELLINGLY to get 143 words. TELLINGLY itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. YELLING is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 9 letters split into 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from TELLINGLY by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 16 with 6, 25 with 5, 46 with 4, 40 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
8 of 25 5-letter words you get when you unscramble TELLINGLY tie at 9 points; none scores more. LYING, INLET and TYING will look familiar.
GLEY and GYTE share the top score of 8 among the 4-letter words from TELLINGLY. LINE, TELL and TINY are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of TELLINGLY for another and you can spell these 5 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with TE · ending in LY · all 9-letter words
What TELLINGLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
TELLINGLY 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TELLINGLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 143) | 107 | 143 | 96 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 36 of them: LYTING, TYEING, GENTY, GYTE, TILLY, ENGILT, GILLET, LEGLIN, LINGEL, LINGLE, LYNE, LYTE and 24 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: GLINTY, GELLY, GYNIE, TIYN, TYIN, GITE, INTEL, NEG, TEIN, GI and TE.