Hidden inside walleyes sit walleyes and weaselly, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
walleyes and weaselly tie for the highest Scrabble score from walleyes at 14 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in walleyes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and walleyes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are walleyes and weaselly, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in walleyes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leeways, walleye, walleys, and weasely, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walleyes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, lease and swell. For points, the strongest plays are wally, welly, wyles, and yawls — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in walleyes produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, easy and else. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including ways, sway and waly.
Unscrambling walleyes turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, aye and eye. For points, the strongest plays are way, wye, yaw, and yew — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walleyes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw and ay. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ay and ew.
Swap a single tile in walleyes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
walleyes 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 walleyes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
walleyes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing walleyes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are walleyes and weaselly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from walleyes 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 walleyes produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.