archway needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WAYRCHA, HWAACRY or CHRAWAY and you get the same 7 letters as ARCHWAY: so the words from ARCHWAY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
archway is the highest-scoring word from archway, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in archway — and it is archway itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in archway. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chary, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in archway produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with away. For points, the strongest play is wych — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling archway turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and car. For points, the strongest play is why — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in archway plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in archway and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
archway 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 one sense for archway. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
archway is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing archway unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is archway, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from archway 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 archway produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.