Scrabble Word Finder: WAYS

13 words found

4-letter words 3

sway10controlling influence
ways10structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
yaws10an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions

3-letter words 6

way9how something is done or how it happens
yaw9an erratic deflection from an intended course
ays6
saw6a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
say6the chance to speak
was6have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

2-letter words 4

aw5
ay5
ya5
as2a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar

About the Scrabble word finder

Enter the tiles on your rack and this finds every word you can play from them, ranked by what the tiles are worth. A ? stands for a blank, which can become any letter but scores nothing itself.

Each word shows its face value: the sum of its tile values. Longer is not always better — a short word on the right square often beats a long one on plain squares, which is why the list stays sorted by score rather than by length.

Examples

retinas: 256 playable words, best being the seven-letter RETAINS and NASTIER
retina?: one blank opens up KERATIN, FAINTER, HAIRNET and hundreds more
zqxjkbn: an ugly rack — the tool still finds what is playable

Tips

Scores shown are tile face value only. Double- and triple-letter and word squares depend on where you place the word, so add those yourself.
Switch the sort to Words with Friends score if that is the game you are playing — the two use different tile values for about half the alphabet.
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Common questions

How do I enter a blank tile?

Type ? for each blank. Two is the maximum, matching a standard set.

Are these words valid in official play?

They come from ENABLE, which underpins many word games. Tournament play uses TWL or Collins, which differ at the edges — check your game's own dictionary for competition.

Why does a blank score zero?

That is the rule: a blank takes the identity of any letter but carries no point value, in both Scrabble and Words with Friends.