47 words come out when you unscramble LAWED, starting with LAWED itself: 9 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: DWALE, WALED and WEALD. The best shorter words score 8: 7 of them, WADE, WELD and LEWD included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from LAWED by length: 4 with 5 letters, 14 with 4, 17 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of LAWED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LA · ending in ED · all 5-letter words
What LAWED means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LAWED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 47) | 40 | 47 | 37 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
7 of the 47 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AWDL, DEAW, WALD, ALEW, LEW, DAE and EA. 3 of the 47 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DWALE, EW and DA.
With one more tile, the letters of LAWED spell the words below.