158 words come out when you unscramble RAILWAYS, starting with RAILWAYS itself: 14 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. RAILWAY and AIRWAYS are the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
R1A1I1L12W4A1Y43S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from RAILWAYS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 10 with 6, 33 with 5, 58 with 4, 42 with 3 and 12 with 2.
7 of 33 5-letter words you get when you unscramble RAILWAYS tie at 11 points; none scores more. ALIAS, RAILS and SWIRL will look familiar.
Of the 58 4-letter words from RAILWAYS, 11 score 10 points, the group's best. AWAY, WAYS and LAWS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of RAILWAYS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with RA · ending in YS · all 8-letter words
RAILWAYS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. RAILWAYS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAILWAYS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 158) | 135 | 158 | 126 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
23 of the 158 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ASWAY, AWAYS, SWALY, SWAYL, SWY, ALAYS, RYALS, YAARS, ALAY, ARSY, LYRA, RYAL and 11 more. 9 of the 158 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SALWAR, LAIRY, WALIS, WALI, LAARIS, YAS, LIAS, RAIS and RAI.
This word takes every letter of RAILWAYS plus a single extra one.