Unscramble ANLAS and you have 29 words, ANLAS itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: ALANS, LANAS, NALAS and NASAL. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ANLAS by length: 5 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 10 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of ANLAS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AN · ending in AS · all 5-letter words
The meaning of ANLAS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ANLAS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANLAS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 29) | 25 | 29 | 22 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 4 of them: LANAS, LANA, ANS and NAS. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: NALAS, NALA and SAN.
These 12 words take every letter of ANLAS plus a single extra one.