89 words come out when you unscramble EMBAYS, starting with EMBAYS itself: 13 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. EMBAYS has 1 anagram here, MAYBES, scoring 13 like EMBAYS itself. The best shorter words score 12: 4 of them, MAYBE, ABYSM and BEAMY included. It has 6 letters, 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from EMBAYS split into 2 with 6 letters, 13 with 5, 26 with 4, 32 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Keep every letter of EMBAYS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with EM · ending in YS · all 6-letter words
What EMBAYS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept EMBAYS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMBAYS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 89) | 74 | 89 | 68 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 15 of them: ABSEY, BAYES, YSAME, BAYE, EMYS, AMES, MASE, SEY, SYE, YAE, AME, SAM and 3 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: SAMEY, BAES, YAS, BAE, BES and MES.
Each word below uses all the letters of EMBAYS and one more.