Unscramble BALMS and you have 37 words, BALMS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. BALMS has 2 anagrams here, BLAMS and LAMBS, scoring 9 like BALMS itself. The best shorter words score 8: 4 of them, LAMB, BALM and BAMS included. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
B34A1L12M34S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from BALMS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 12 with 4, 15 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of BALMS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with BA · ending in MS · all 5-letter words
The meaning of BALMS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BALMS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALMS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 37) | 33 | 37 | 33 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 4 of them: MALS, MAL, SAM and SMA.
These 6 words take every letter of BALMS plus a single extra one.