186 words come out when you unscramble DATAFILE, starting with DATAFILE itself: 12 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
D2A1T1A1F4I1L12E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from DATAFILE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 13 with 6, 31 with 5, 60 with 4, 56 with 3 and 25 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 31 5-letter words in DATAFILE, 9 score 9 points, the group's best. FIELD, FILED and DELTA are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words from DATAFILE; 8 of them share the top score of 8. DATE, DATA and LIFE are everyday picks.
Among 56 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DATAFILE, the top score is 7, reached by 5. LET, AID and FAT are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DATAFILE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DA · ending in LE · all 8-letter words
What DATAFILE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: DATAFILE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DATAFILE itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 186) | 150 | 184 | 143 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 34 of them: AEFALD, DAFTIE, FIATED, AFALD, ALEFT, DEIF, IDEATA, ALDEA, DATAL, DITAL, ELIAD, FAA and 22 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: DATAFILE, DEF, DIF, DELT, FE, DA and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: ALF and FI.
Each word below uses all the letters of DATAFILE and one more.