Unscramble AFTERSWARM and you have 279 words, AFTERSWARM itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is WARFARES, 14 points. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from AFTERSWARM by length: 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 8, 19 with 7, 54 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 23 with 2. None has 9 letters.
FRETSAW, WAFTERS and WARFARE are the top 7-letter words in AFTERSWARM, 13 points each. FARMERS, SMARTER and WARMERS will look familiar.
Of the 54 6-letter words from AFTERSWARM, 4 score 12 points, the group's best. MASTER, STREAM and FASTER are the ones most people know.
Among 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble AFTERSWARM, the top score is 11, reached by 7. AFTER, WATER and FRAME are the familiar ones.
4 of 60 4-letter words from AFTERSWARM tie at 10 points; none scores more. FAST, SAFE and FARM will look familiar.
Among the 3-letter words in AFTERSWARM, FAW and FEW tie for first at 9 points. ARE, WAS and ART are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of AFTERSWARM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with AF · ending in RM · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by WARFARES (14 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts AFTERSWARM, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFTERSWARM itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 279) | 213 | 277 | 203 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AFTERSWARM, FETWAS, FETWA, SWERF, AWAREST, FAWS, FERMS, FEWS, MAWRS, AFEARS, AMEARST, AWARER and 52 more, 64 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: FAMS, ARAMES, FAM, FESTA, TREFA, WETAS, FEST, FES, EW, FE, MES and TE, 12 in all. Not in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: EMFS and EMF, 2 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of AFTERSWARM plus a single extra one.