Unscramble BALLYRAG and you have 85 words, BALLYRAG itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. BRAGLY is the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BALLYRAG by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 13 with 5, 30 with 4, 28 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 7 letters.
GABY tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BALLYRAG at 10 points; next come ABLY and BLAY on 9. BALL, GRAY and GRAB will look familiar.
Trade one tile of BALLYRAG for another and you can spell these 5 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with BA · ending in AG · all 8-letter words
The meaning of BALLYRAG, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. BALLYRAG is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLYRAG itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 85) | 74 | 85 | 71 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BRAGLY, ABRAY, BLAY, YABA, GYAL, ALAY, LYRA, RYAL, YAAR, ARBA and ARY, 11 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LABRAL, BLAG and YAG, 3 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of BALLYRAG spell the words below.