Unscramble BRAINILY and you have 120 words, BRAINILY itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
B34R1A1I1N12I1L12Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from BRAINILY by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 4 with 6, 21 with 5, 42 with 4, 33 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
Of the 21 5-letter words you get when you unscramble BRAINILY, 4 score 10 points, the group's best. BRAIN, RAINY and INLAY are the ones most people know.
42 4-letter words from BRAINILY; 5 of them share the top score of 9. RAIN, RAIL and NAIL are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of BRAINILY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BR · ending in LY · all 8-letter words
The meaning of BRAINILY, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BRAINILY, and the Words With Friends list has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAINILY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 120) | 110 | 120 | 104 |
* NWL2023 (US), Collins CSW24 (UK); *the Words With Friends list changes.
10 of the 120 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BLAY, BILIAN, NIRLY, ABRIN, LYRA, RYAL, ARY, RIBA, NY and NIRL. 6 of the 120 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BIRYANI, BLINY, LAIRY, LAYIN, RABI and LARN.
This word takes every letter of BRAINILY plus a single extra one.