Unscramble AXELS and you have 37 words, AXELS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 12 points: AXLES and LAXES. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
A1X8E1L12S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from AXELS split into 3 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 15 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of AXELS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AX · ending in LS · all 5-letter words
AXELS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept AXELS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXELS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 37) | 33 | 37 | 32 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
4 of the 37 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SAXE, SLAE, EAS and EA. 1 of the 37 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: LAXES.
Each word below uses all the letters of AXELS and one more.