Unscramble BANNINGS and you have 100 words, BANNINGS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. BANNING is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from BANNINGS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 4 with 6, 9 with 5, 38 with 4, 35 with 3 and 12 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in BANNINGS: BANNING, 10 points.
Among 38 4-letter words from BANNINGS, the top score is 7, reached by 7. SIGN, GAIN and BAGS are the familiar ones.
These 6 words have the length of BANNINGS, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with BA · ending in GS · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by BANNING (10 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts BANNINGS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANNINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 100) | 79 | 100 | 72 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
21 of the 100 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BANNINGS, BINGS, BIGA, INGANS, INGAN, SNAB, GANS, GINN, INGS, NANG, NGAI, SNIG and 9 more. 7 of the 100 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BING, SIGNA, AGS, GIS, SIG, GI and SAN.