Unscramble WOOLSEYS and you have 140 words, WOOLSEYS itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
W4O1O1L12S1E1Y43S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from WOOLSEYS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 9 with 6, 31 with 5, 48 with 4, 35 with 3 and 14 with 2.
5 of 31 5-letter words from WOOLSEYS tie at 11 points; none scores more. LOOSE, LOSES and SOLOS will look familiar.
48 4-letter words you get when you unscramble WOOLSEYS; 10 of them share the top score of 10. LESS, LOSS and SLOW are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of WOOLSEYS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with WO · ending in YS · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with WOOLY, WYLES, YOWES and YOWLS (11 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts WOOLSEYS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOLSEYS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 140) | 99 | 140 | 94 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 41 of them: WOOLSEYS, WOOLSEY, SWEYS, SWEY, WEYS, WOOSELS, LOWSES, SOWLES, SOYLES, SWY, WEY, WOOSEL and 29 more. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: OWLY, YEOW, SWOLE, SOLOES and EW.