Unscramble ELEMENTAL to get 159 words. ELEMENTAL itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 4 of them, ELEMENT, MANTEEL and TELEMAN included. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ELEMENTAL split into 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 7, 15 with 6, 22 with 5, 56 with 4, 43 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among 56 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ELEMENTAL, the top score is 6, reached by 28. NAME, TEEN and TEAM are the familiar ones.
43 3-letter words you get when you unscramble ELEMENTAL; 15 of them share the top score of 5. ALL, MAN and MEN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of ELEMENTAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with EL · ending in AL · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ELEMENT, TELEMAN and TELEMEN (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ELEMENTAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELEMENTAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 159) | 121 | 159 | 118 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MANTEEL, ENTAME, TEMENE, AMENE, ELMEN, LEMEL, MANET, MEANE, ELANET, LEAM, LEETLE, LEME and 26 more, 38 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: MELENA, MENTEE and TE, 3 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of ELEMENTAL and one more.