Unscramble BILINGUAL to get 140 words. BILINGUAL itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 18 in Words With Friends. 4 shorter words score 10, among them BILLING, BAILING and BALLING. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BILINGUAL by length: 1 with 9 letters, 6 with 7, 13 with 6, 23 with 5, 42 with 4, 39 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
6 of 42 4-letter words from BILINGUAL tie at 7 points; none scores more. BILL, BALL and GAIN will look familiar.
These 3 words have the length of BILINGUAL, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with BI · ending in AL · all 9-letter words
BILINGUAL first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BILINGUAL 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BILINGUAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 140) | 115 | 139 | 104 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ABLING, BILING, BAILLI, BILIAN, GIBLI, UNBAG, BALUN, BIGA, BUNIA, ULLING, BALU, GUB and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LUBING, BLING, LINGULA, BING, BLAG, BUNA, AGLU, NUG, GI, LUN and UNI, 11 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: UGLI.
Each word below uses all the letters of BILINGUAL and one more.