Unscramble ANTICLINAL and you have 150 words, ANTICLINAL itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is ACTINIAN, 10 points. 10 letters: 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ANTICLINAL split into 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 8, 11 with 7, 15 with 6, 30 with 5, 46 with 4, 34 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 9 letters.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in ANTICLINAL: ACTINIAN, 10 points.
16 of 30 5-letter words from ANTICLINAL tie at 7 points; none scores more. CANAL, NATAL and LILAC will look familiar.
46 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ANTICLINAL; 12 of them share the top score of 6. CALL, ANTI and TILL are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of ANTICLINAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with AN · ending in AL · all 10-letter words
ANTICLINAL first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ANTICLINAL works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTICLINAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 150) | 119 | 150 | 111 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALICANT, ANCILIA, ANTICAL, LACINIA, CITAL, CLINT, ICTAL, ANTLIA, CANN, CILL, CLAT, NAIANT and 19 more, 31 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CANTAL, TACAN, ACAI, CLIT, LATINA, CAL, NALA and TIAN, 8 in all.
This word takes every letter of ANTICLINAL plus a single extra one.