52 words come out when you unscramble RELAY, starting with RELAY itself: 8 in Scrabble, 8 in Words With Friends. 4 anagrams of RELAY are on the page: EARLY, LAYER, LEARY and RAYLE, each 8 points. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from RELAY by length: 5 with 5 letters, 18 with 4, 18 with 3 and 11 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of RELAY, with one letter different:
More 5-letter words: starting with RE · ending in AY · all 5-letter words
What RELAY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RELAY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RELAY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 52) | 41 | 52 | 40 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: RAYLE, AYRE, LYRA, RYAL, YALE, ARY, YAE, ARLE, LAER, LARE and EA, 11 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: YER.
These 12 words take every letter of RELAY plus a single extra one.