Unscramble ALLOCATOR to get 145 words. ALLOCATOR itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
A1L12L12O1C34A1T1O1R1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ALLOCATOR by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 5 with 7, 7 with 6, 28 with 5, 53 with 4, 40 with 3 and 10 with 2.
COLLATOR is the only one of the 8-letter words in ALLOCATOR; it scores 10 points.
Among 28 5-letter words from ALLOCATOR, the top score is 7, reached by 16. LOCAL, COLOR and ACTOR are the familiar ones.
53 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ALLOCATOR; 27 of them share the top score of 6. CALL, CART and TOOL are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of ALLOCATOR but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AL · ending in OR · all 9-letter words
What ALLOCATOR means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ALLOCATOR, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLOCATOR itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 145) | 119 | 145 | 109 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CALALOO, CORALLA, CROTALA, CARLOT, CROTAL, CARTA, CLART, CROOL, ALCO, AROLLA, ATOC, CLAT and 14 more, 26 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ALCOOL, ACRO, TOCO, CAL, LOC, TOLAR, LOTO, ARO, LOR and ROO, 10 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of ALLOCATOR and one more.