Unscramble ANNOTATIVE and you have 218 words, ANNOTATIVE itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. INNOVATE and VENATION are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 10 letters split into 5 vowels and 5 consonants.
A1N12N12O1T1A1T1I1V45E1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from ANNOTATIVE by length: 1 with 10 letters, 6 with 8, 8 with 7, 28 with 6, 37 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 9 letters.
9 of 28 6-letter words you get when you unscramble ANNOTATIVE tie at 9 points; none scores more. NATION, NATIVE and INTENT will look familiar.
Of the 37 5-letter words from ANNOTATIVE, 13 score 8 points, the group's best. TITAN, AVIAN and NAIVE are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words in ANNOTATIVE, the top score is 7, reached by 20. NOTE, NONE and ANTI are the familiar ones.
16 of 57 3-letter words made with ANNOTATIVE letters tie at 6 points; none scores more. NOT, ONE and NET will look familiar.
Keep every letter of ANNOTATIVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with AN · ending in VE · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by INNOVATE and VENATION (11 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. ANNOTATIVE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANNOTATIVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 218) | 167 | 217 | 157 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 50 of them: VENTANA, AVANTI, VIENNA, ANTENATI, AVINE, ANTIENT, NONETTI, TAVA, VANT, VIAE, VINT, VITE and 38 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: NOVATE, ATONIA, NAV, VIN, NATTO, TENNO, NANO, NONI, OI and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: VON.