Unscramble SWALLIES to get 173 words. SWALLIES itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, LAWLESS, WALLIES and WALISES lead with 10 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from SWALLIES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 19 with 6, 45 with 5, 56 with 4, 33 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
25 of 45 5-letter words from SWALLIES tie at 8 points; none scores more. SALES, WALLS and WELLS will look familiar.
56 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SWALLIES; 25 of them share the top score of 7. WILL, WELL and SALE are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of SWALLIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SW · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by LAWLESS and WALLIES (10 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts SWALLIES, but the Words With Friends list does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWALLIES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 173) | 135 | 173 | 126 |
* Lists: NWL2023, Collins CSW24, Words With Friends' own (changing) list.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 38 of them: SWALLIES, WALISES, SWEALS, WALISE, ALEWS, SWEAL, SWIES, WASES, WEILS, WIELS, ALEW, ALLISES and 26 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: SWILES, SWILE, WALIE, WALIS, WALI, LIASES, EW, LASSI and LIAS.
This word takes every letter of SWALLIES plus a single extra one.