104 words come out when you unscramble AFFECTIVE, starting with AFFECTIVE itself: 20 in Scrabble, 22 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from AFFECTIVE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 5 with 6, 8 with 5, 32 with 4, 42 with 3 and 15 with 2. None has 8 letters.
FACTIVE is the only one of the 7-letter words in AFFECTIVE; it scores 15 points.
VIFF scores highest among the 4-letter words from AFFECTIVE at 13 points, ahead of CAFF on 12 and FAVE on 10. FIVE, FACT and FACE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of AFFECTIVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AF · ending in VE · all 9-letter words
What AFFECTIVE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. AFFECTIVE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFFECTIVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 104) | 88 | 103 | 82 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 15 of them: FACTIVE, FECIT, CIVE, EVET, VIAE, VITE, FAE, TEF, TICE, VAE, CIT, ITA and 3 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: VIFF, FAV, CAF, FE, TEC and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.