Unscramble ANABANTID and you have 102 words, ANABANTID itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
A1N12A1B34A1N12T1I1D2
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ANABANTID split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 8 with 6, 12 with 5, 27 with 4, 36 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Keep every letter of ANABANTID but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AN · ending in ID · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with BANDANA and TABANID (10 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts ANABANTID, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANABANTID itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 102) | 71 | 101 | 66 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 31 of them: ANABANTID, IBADAT, ABAND, ABID, AIDANT, BANIA, BANT, DAINT, DINNA, IDANT, NAIANT, TABI and 19 more. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: BANDA, ANANDA, DAN, TIAN and DA. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: BINT.
This word takes every letter of ANABANTID plus a single extra one.