Unscramble WAILSOME to get 224 words. WAILSOME itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
W4A1I1L12S1O1M34E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from WAILSOME by length: 1 with 8 letters, 14 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 29 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Among 60 5-letter words in WAILSOME, the top score is 10, reached by 7. EMAIL, MILES and SMILE are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble WAILSOME, 13 score 9 points, the group's best. LAWS, SLOW and WISE are the ones most people know.
4 of 60 3-letter words from WAILSOME tie at 8 points; none scores more. WAS, LAW and LOW will look familiar.
Keep every letter of WAILSOME but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with WA · ending in ME · all 8-letter words
What WAILSOME means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept WAILSOME, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAILSOME itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 224) | 173 | 224 | 155 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
51 of the 224 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AWSOME, MOWAS, LEASOW, MOWA, SOWM, WALISE, WASM, WEMS, ALEWS, ALOWE, MESAIL, MOILES and 39 more. 18 of the 224 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ASWIM, EMAILS, OWIES, SWILE, SWOLE, WALIE, WALIS, EMAIL, OWIE, WALI, EMOS, EMO and 6 more.