Unscramble ARMADILLO and you have 196 words, ARMADILLO itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from ARMADILLO by length: 1 with 9 letters, 8 with 7, 10 with 6, 41 with 5, 60 with 4, 55 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 41 5-letter words from ARMADILLO, 8 score 8 points, the group's best. RADIO, DRAMA and ALARM are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ARMADILLO, the top score is 7, reached by 8. MAIL, LORD and LOAD are the familiar ones.
55 3-letter words from ARMADILLO; 6 of them share the top score of 6. ALL, OLD and AIR are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of ARMADILLO but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AR · ending in LO · all 9-letter words
ARMADILLO first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ARMADILLO, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMADILLO itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 196) | 157 | 196 | 145 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AMILDAR, MARID, MORALL, ARMIL, LAROID, MARD, MILOR, MOLLA, MORIA, ROMAL, AMLA, AROLLA and 27 more, 39 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DIRAM, RAMAL, MARA, LOID, MOI, OMA, ODA, ARO, DA, LOR, RAI and OI, 12 in all.
This word takes every letter of ARMADILLO plus a single extra one.