Unscramble EFFICIENT and you have 88 words, EFFICIENT itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from EFFICIENT by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 1 with 7, 7 with 6, 7 with 5, 33 with 4, 26 with 3 and 12 with 2.
INFICETE is the only one of the 8-letter words made with EFFICIENT letters; it scores 13 points.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in EFFICIENT: FIFTEEN, 13 points.
Trade one tile of EFFICIENT for another and you can spell these 4 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with EF · ending in NT · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by EFFECT (14 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept EFFICIENT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EFFICIENT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 88) | 63 | 87 | 58 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
24 of the 88 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: INFICETE, INFEFT, FECIT, FIFI, FIENT, CTENE, FEEN, FENI, FENT, FINI, NIEF, NIFE and 12 more. 5 of the 88 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NIFF, FE, TEC, TEIN and TE. 1 of the 88 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
This word takes every letter of EFFICIENT plus a single extra one.