anyway needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anyway is the highest-scoring word from anyway, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in anyway — and it is anyway itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling anyway turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, way, and yay. For points, the strongest plays are way, wyn, yaw, and yay — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in anyway plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in anyway and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
anyway is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for anyway. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
anyway is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anyway unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is anyway, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from anyway earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in anyway produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.