104 words come out when you unscramble OILWAYS, starting with OILWAYS itself: 13 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, OILWAY leads with 12 points. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of OILWAYS at once for 63 in Scrabble (13 + 50) or 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
O1I1L12W4A1Y43S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from OILWAYS by length: 1 with 7 letters, 2 with 6, 9 with 5, 38 with 4, 35 with 3 and 19 with 2.
Of the 38 4-letter words from OILWAYS, 10 score 10 points, the group's best. ALSO, WAYS and LAWS are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of OILWAYS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with OI · ending in YS · all 7-letter words
What OILWAYS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
OILWAYS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OILWAYS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 104) | 88 | 104 | 82 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SWALY, SWAYL, SWY, SOILY, LOYS, SOWL, WAIS, LOY, OYS, WAI, IOS, ISO and 4 more, 16 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: OWLY, WALIS, WALI, YAS, LIAS and OI, 6 in all.