Unscramble ANCLE and you have 32 words, ANCLE itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. ANCLE has 2 anagrams here, CLEAN and LANCE, scoring 7 like ANCLE itself. The best shorter words score 6: 6 of them, LACE, CLAN and ACNE included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from ANCLE by length: 3 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 10 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of ANCLE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AN · ending in LE · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; CLEAN and LANCE (7 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ANCLE is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANCLE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 32) | 27 | 32 | 26 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
5 of the 32 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ANCLE, ANCE, NEAL, EAN and EA. 1 of the 32 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: CAL.
These 12 words take every letter of ANCLE plus a single extra one.