Jumble solved
Is WINDLASSES a word? Yes.
WINDLASSES is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 10 letters, worth 14 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 434 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 434
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 10 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 3 : 7
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 3 vowels (I, A, E) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 7 remaining consonants (W, N, D, L, S, S, S).
Anagrams of WINDLASSES
One word uses all 10 letters:
- windlasses
10-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
6 words found7-letter words
19 words found+ 4 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
64 words found- dewans10
- diwans10
- dwales10
- dwines10
- lawned10
- snawed10
- wadies10
- wailed10
- wandle10
- wealds10
- widens10
- wields10
- windle10
- wissed10
+ 49 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
123 words found+ 108 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
132 words found+ 117 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
66 words found+ 51 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
23 words found+ 8 more 2-letter words
Words hidden inside WINDLASSES
Without moving a single letter, reading windlasses straight through uncovers 8 shorter words — windlass, lasses, asses, lass, wind, ass, and more. The longest unbroken run is windlass.
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Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
10
Distinct
8
Vowels
30%
I, A, E
Consonants
70%
W, N, D, L, S, S, S
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Solving WINDLASSES: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters windlasses?
Rearranging the 10 letters in windlasses produces 434 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 10-letter answer windlasses here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does windlasses have any anagrams?
Using all 10 letters, windlasses rearranges into exactly one word: windlasses.
What is the longest word you can make from windlasses?
The longest solution is windlasses at 10 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from windlasses?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: windlasses yields ads, aid, ail, ain, ais, ale, als, and, ane and ani. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from windlasses scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, windlasses is the top scorer from windlasses at 14 points, followed by swindles (12), wessands (12) and wildness (12). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside windlasses?
Read left to right without moving any letters and windlasses already contains 8 shorter words: windlass, lasses, asses, lass, wind and ass (plus 2 more). The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is windlass. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.