Unscramble DECANAL to get 95 words. DECANAL itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 10 points: CANALED and CANDELA. CANDLE, ALCADE and LANCED are the best of the shorter words, at 9 points. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of DECANAL at once for 60 in Scrabble (10 + 50) or 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DECANAL split into 3 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 19 with 5, 29 with 4, 26 with 3 and 14 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of DECANAL, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with DE · ending in AL · all 7-letter words
What DECANAL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DECANAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DECANAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 95) | 81 | 95 | 76 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
14 of the 95 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CAAED, ANCLE, ECAD, ALDEA, ANCE, LANDE, CAA, DAAL, DAE, LANA, NEAL, NED and 2 more. 5 of the 95 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DECAN, CAL, DAN, NALA and DA.
These 9 words take every letter of DECANAL plus a single extra one.