108 words come out when you unscramble COLUMNAL, starting with COLUMNAL itself: 12 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, COLUMN leads with 10 points. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
C34O1L12U12M34N12A1L12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from COLUMNAL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 13 with 5, 45 with 4, 30 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
6 of 45 4-letter words from COLUMNAL tie at 8 points; none scores more. CALL, LOAN and NULL will look familiar.
Keep every letter of COLUMNAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with CO · ending in AL · all 8-letter words
COLUMNAL first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept COLUMNAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLUMNAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 108) | 84 | 108 | 77 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
24 of the 108 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CLOAM, CAUM, MONAUL, MANUL, MOLLA, MONAL, ALCO, CLOU, COLL, LOMA, MONA, NAMU and 12 more. 7 of the 108 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CAMO, LOUMA, LUMA, CAL, LOC, OMA and LUN.
With one more tile, the letters of COLUMNAL spell the words below.