Unscramble BANE and you have 20 words, BANE itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: BEAN and NABE. The best shorter words score 5: 5 of them, BAN, NAB and NEB included. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BANE by length: 3 with 4 letters, 8 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of BANE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with BA · ending in NE · all 4-letter words
What BANE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BANE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 20) | 18 | 20 | 17 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
2 of the 20 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EAN and EA. 1 of the 20 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: BAE.
With one more tile, the letters of BANE spell the words below.