Hidden inside relays sit layers, relays, and slayer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
layers, relays, and slayer tie for the highest Scrabble score from relays at 9 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in relays: two come from rearranging its letters, and relays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with layers. For points, the strongest plays are layers, relays, and slayer — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with early, laser, layer, and years. For points, the strongest plays are aryls, early, eyras, layer, leary, lyase, lyres, relay, resay, sayer, slyer, and years — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relays produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, easy, eras, lays, real, rely, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are aery, aryl, ayes, easy, eyas, eyra, lays, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, rays, rely, ryas, ryes, slay, yare, year, and yeas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relays turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye, ear, era, lay, say, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aye, ays, lay, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, say, sly, yar, yas, yea, yer, and yes — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in relays 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.
relays 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in relays carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for relays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
relays is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are layers, relays, and slayer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relays 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 relays produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.