Hidden inside getaways sit gateways and getaways, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gateways and getaways tie for the highest Scrabble score from getaways at 15 points. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in getaways: one comes from rearranging its letters, and getaways 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 gateways and getaways, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in getaways produces 3 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 gateway and getaway, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling getaways turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gayest and sweaty. For points, the strongest plays are seaway and sweaty — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in getaways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, stage, sweat, and waste. For points, the strongest play is gawsy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in getaways produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, away, east, easy, eats, gate, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are away, sway, ways, wyes, wyte, yaws, and yews — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling getaways turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, aye, eat, gas, gay, and get. For points, the strongest plays are way, wye, yaw, and yew — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in getaways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, ay, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, ew, we, 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 getaways 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.
getaways 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 getaways carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for getaways. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
getaways is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing getaways unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gateways and getaways, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from getaways 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 getaways produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.