Unscramble ACRE and you have 16 words, ACRE itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. ACRE has 3 anagrams here, ACER, CARE and RACE, scoring 6 like ACRE itself. The best shorter words score 5: 4 of them, CAR, ARC and ACE included. 4 letters: 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from ACRE split into 4 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of ACRE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with AC · ending in RE · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to ACRE:
ACRE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ACRE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACRE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 16) | 14 | 16 | 14 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: ACER and EA.
These 12 words take every letter of ACRE plus a single extra one.