Unscramble ANOPHELES and you have 265 words, ANOPHELES itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are PHENOLS and PEAHENS, 12 points each. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ANOPHELES by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 9 with 7, 45 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 29 with 2.
ENHALOES is the only one of the 8-letter words in ANOPHELES; it scores 11 points.
Among 45 6-letter words you get when you unscramble ANOPHELES, the top score is 11, reached by 14. PLEASE, PHONES and PANELS are the familiar ones.
19 of 60 5-letter words from ANOPHELES tie at 10 points; none scores more. PHONE, PHASE and HELPS will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ANOPHELES, the top score is 9, reached by 21. HELP, SHOP and HOPE are the familiar ones.
60 3-letter words from ANOPHELES; 7 of them share the top score of 8. HAS, SPA and HOP are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of ANOPHELES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AN · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
The meaning of ANOPHELES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ANOPHELES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANOPHELES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 265) | 213 | 263 | 187 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 52 of them: PHENES, PHEONS, PHOLAS, SEPHEN, SHEEPO, PHENE, PHEON, PHESE, PLESH, SHOPE, ALPEENS, HESP and 40 more. Words With Friends* skips 26 of them: PHEOS, HALONS, HEPS, NOPALES, PHEO, PHOS, HALON, PALEOS, PHO, PLEONS, SAPELE, HAOS and 14 more. Scrabble UK skips 2 of them: HAOLES and HAOLE.
With one more tile, the letters of ANOPHELES spell the words below.