95 words come out when you unscramble BACILLAR, starting with BACILLAR itself: 12 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. BACILLAR has 1 anagram here, CABRILLA, scoring 12 like BACILLAR itself. ARABIC is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BACILLAR by length: 2 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 5 with 6, 16 with 5, 34 with 4, 27 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of BACILLAR but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BA · ending in AR · all 8-letter words
What BACILLAR means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BACILLAR, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACILLAR itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 95) | 84 | 95 | 76 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ABAC, CABA, BAC, BRAAI, ARBA, CILL, CIRL, RACA, RIBA, CAA and AIA, 11 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: AIRBALL, BARCA, LABRAL, ACAI, CRIA, RABI, CAL and RAI, 8 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of BACILLAR plus a single extra one.