Unscramble BALAS to get 36 words. BALAS itself is a real word: 7 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: ALBAS, BAALS, BALSA, BASAL and SABAL. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BALAS by length: 6 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 14 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of BALAS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with BA · ending in AS · all 5-letter words
BALAS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
BALAS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALAS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 36) | 36 | 36 | 35 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: SABAL.
With one more tile, the letters of BALAS spell the words below.