Unscramble ANNOYANCE to get 95 words. ANNOYANCE itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
A1N12N12O1Y43A1N12C34E1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ANNOYANCE split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 7 with 6, 17 with 5, 25 with 4, 28 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
NOYANCE is the only one of the 7-letter words in ANNOYANCE; it scores 12 points.
Keep every letter of ANNOYANCE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AN · ending in CE · all 9-letter words
What ANNOYANCE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ANNOYANCE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANNOYANCE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 95) | 71 | 93 | 67 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 22 of them: NOYANCE, CANY, CANNAE, NONNY, CONNE, ANCE, CANN, NOY, NYE, ONY, OYE, YAE and 10 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: ANYON, ANNONA, NONANE, ECO, NANNA and NANO. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 2 of them: NANCY and NANCE.
This word takes every letter of ANNOYANCE plus a single extra one.