Unscramble WORDPLAY to get 168 words. WORDPLAY itself is a real word: 17 points on a Scrabble board, 18 in Words With Friends. AYWORD and DRAWLY are the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from WORDPLAY by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 6, 24 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 7 letters.
YAWP scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble WORDPLAY at 12 points, ahead of WADY on 11 and AWRY on 10. PLAY, WORD and DROP are the ones most people know.
4 of 60 3-letter words from WORDPLAY tie at 9 points; none scores more. DAY, WAY and LAW will look familiar.
Keep every letter of WORDPLAY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with WO · ending in AY · all 8-letter words
WORDPLAY first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept WORDPLAY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORDPLAY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 168) | 132 | 168 | 126 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
35 of the 168 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AYWORD, DOWLY, LOWRY, DOWP, PARLY, PYRAL, DOWAR, LORDY, LOWP, PORY, WALDO, YORP and 23 more. 7 of the 168 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: OWLY, PYRO, APO, OPA, ODA, PO and DA. 1 of the 168 answers is missing from Scrabble US: WOP.
These 2 words take every letter of WORDPLAY plus a single extra one.