Unscramble ALLOWANCE and you have 158 words, ALLOWANCE itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ALLOWANCE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 7 with 6, 26 with 5, 60 with 4, 44 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 8 letters.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words made with ALLOWANCE letters: CANELLA, 9 points.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ALLOWANCE, the top score is 9, reached by 5. WELL, CALL and CELL are the familiar ones.
CAW and COW are the top 3-letter words you get when you unscramble ALLOWANCE, 8 points each. ALL, NEW and CAN will look familiar.
Keep every letter of ALLOWANCE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AL · ending in CE · all 9-letter words
What ALLOWANCE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. ALLOWANCE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLOWANCE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 158) | 132 | 158 | 127 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COWAL, COWAN, CLOW, ENWALL, WAAC, ALOWE, LOWAN, LOWNE, WANLE, ALEW, ANCLE, ANOW and 14 more, 26 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CAL, ECO, EW, LOC and NALA, 5 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of ALLOWANCE and one more.