Unscramble HEADWAYS and you have 186 words, HEADWAYS itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
H43E1A1D2W4A1Y43S1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from HEADWAYS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 8 with 6, 35 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 20 with 2.
Among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble HEADWAYS, WHYDA leads with 15 points, then WASHY and WHEYS on 14. AHEAD, HEADS and SHADE are the familiar ones.
WHEY and WHYS share the top score of 13 among the 4-letter words from HEADWAYS. DAYS, EASY and HEAD are the ones most people know.
WHY tops the 3-letter words from HEADWAYS at 12 points; next come HAW and HAY on 9. WAS, HAS and HAD will look familiar.
Keep every letter of HEADWAYS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HE · ending in YS · all 8-letter words
The meaning of HEADWAYS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. HEADWAYS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEADWAYS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 186) | 146 | 186 | 133 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 40 of them: DAWAHS, HAWSED, AWAYES, DAWAH, DEAWY, WAYED, ASWAY, AWAYS, HYED, SAWAH, SHAYA, HEYS and 28 more. Words With Friends* skips 13 of them: WHYDAS, WHYDA, YEAHS, SHWA, WAAH, SAYED, AHED, AHS, YAS, EW, DAS, EDS and 1 more.
With one more tile, the letters of HEADWAYS spell the words below.