Unscramble UNLAYING and you have 123 words, UNLAYING itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. UNLAYING has 1 anagram here, UNGAINLY, scoring 12 like UNLAYING itself. 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.
Counting the words from UNLAYING by length: 2 with 8 letters, 11 with 6, 21 with 5, 38 with 4, 34 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 7 letters.
38 4-letter words from UNLAYING; 8 of them share the top score of 8. GAIN, LUNG and NAIL are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of UNLAYING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with UN · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
The meaning of UNLAYING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept UNLAYING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNLAYING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 123) | 97 | 122 | 88 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NYING, GULY, GYAL, GYAN, UNGAIN, YUG, AYU, INGAN, UGALI, GILA, GINN, GULA and 13 more, 25 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LAYIN, LINNY, LIGNAN, YAG, AGLU, NUG, GI, LUN and UNI, 9 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: UGLI.