Unscramble COMPETENCE to get 142 words. COMPETENCE itself is a real word: 18 points on a Scrabble board, 23 in Words With Friends. 10 letters: 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
C34O1M34P34E1T1E1N12C34E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from COMPETENCE by length: 1 with 10 letters, 3 with 7, 12 with 6, 22 with 5, 47 with 4, 41 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 9 or 8 letters.
COMPT scores highest among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble COMPETENCE at 11 points, ahead of COMET and COMTE on 9. MONTE, TEMPO and PENCE are the ones most people know.
COMP tops the 4-letter words from COMPETENCE at 10 points; next come CEPE and COME on 8. OPEN, TEEN and NOTE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of COMPETENCE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with CO · ending in CE · all 10-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with COMPETE and CONCEPT (13 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
COMPETENCE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMPETENCE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 142) | 116 | 142 | 107 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
26 of the 142 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TOPMEN, NEMPT, PEECE, ECCE, ECCO, EMPT, TEMENE, CTENE, MOTEN, MENE, MENT, PENE and 14 more. 9 of the 142 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: EOCENE, MENTEE, MENTO, ONCET, ECO, EMO, TEC, PO and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of COMPETENCE spell the words below.