Unscramble ARCHAEAN and you have 104 words, ARCHAEAN itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ARCHAEAN split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 6 with 6, 18 with 5, 32 with 4, 29 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Keep every letter of ARCHAEAN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AR · ending in AN · all 8-letter words
What ARCHAEAN means, then the 6 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: ARCHAEAN is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCHAEAN itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 104) | 72 | 104 | 67 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ACHARNE, AREACH, CHENAR, ENARCH, ACHAR, CANEH, CHARA, NACHE, RACHE, CHER, NACH, RACH and 20 more, 32 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ARCHAEAN, ARCHAEA, ARCHEAN, CHANA and NARE, 5 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of ARCHAEAN spell the words below.