110 words come out when you unscramble WAYLAYER, starting with WAYLAYER itself: 17 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is WAYLAY, 15 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
W4A1Y43L12A1Y43E1R1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from WAYLAYER split into 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 6, 15 with 5, 38 with 4, 36 with 3 and 15 with 2. None has 7 letters.
YAWY tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble WAYLAYER at 13 points; next come AWAY and AWRY on 10. YEAR, REAL and AREA will look familiar.
Keep every letter of WAYLAYER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with WA · ending in ER · all 8-letter words
The meaning of WAYLAYER, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. WAYLAYER is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAYLAYER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 110) | 90 | 110 | 87 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: YAWY, WEY, LAWER, RAYLE, ALAY, ALEW, AREW, AYRE, LYRA, RYAL, YAAR, YALE and 8 more, 20 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: YAWEY, YER and EW, 3 in all.
This word takes every letter of WAYLAYER plus a single extra one.