Hidden inside wildaya is one standout: waylaid, a seven-letter play worth 14 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
WILDAYA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to WAYLAID (verb, form of waylay), to ambush, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
waylaid is the highest-scoring word from wildaya, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling wildaya produces exactly one seven-letter word: waylaid. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wildaya produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with away, dial and lady. For points, the strongest play is wady — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wildaya turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, day and lad. For points, the strongest plays are way and yaw — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wildaya. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, ay, and id. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in wildaya 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is waylaid, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wildaya 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 wildaya produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.