50 words come out when you unscramble WALES, starting with WALES itself: 8 in Scrabble, 9 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: ALEWS, SWALE, SWEAL and WEALS. The best shorter words score 7: 11 of them, LAWS, SLEW and WALE included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
Looking for lasew, alsew, walse, wlsae, ewasl, lesaw, lsawe, sleaw, aewls or elasw? They use the same letters as WALES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from WALES split into 5 with 5 letters, 17 with 4, 18 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of WALES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with WA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to WALES:
WALES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
WALES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 50) | 41 | 50 | 40 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 9 of them: ALEWS, SWEAL, ALEW, WASE, WELS, LEW, SLAE, EAS and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: EW.
With one more tile, the letters of WALES spell the words below.