Unscramble ELEMENTARY to get 286 words. ELEMENTARY itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. 10 letters: 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
E1L12E1M34E1N12T1A1R1Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from ELEMENTARY by length: 1 with 10 letters, 4 with 8, 15 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 26 with 2. None has 9 letters.
Of the 60 6-letter words from ELEMENTARY, 9 score 11 points, the group's best. MENTAL, NEARLY and MERELY are the ones most people know.
18 of 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ELEMENTARY tie at 10 points; none scores more. EARLY, ENTRY and LAYER will look familiar.
60 4-letter words from ELEMENTARY; 12 of them share the top score of 9. YEAR, MANY and MEAN are everyday picks.
Of the 60 3-letter words in ELEMENTARY, 4 score 8 points, the group's best. ARE, MAY and ANY are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ELEMENTARY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with EL · ending in RY · all 10-letter words
What ELEMENTARY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ELEMENTARY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELEMENTARY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 286) | 204 | 286 | 195 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: METAYER, ALMERY, ENTAYLE, MANTY, MEYNT, REAMY, YEALM, ANERLY, EYALET, LAMETER, LARNEY, LYAM and 70 more, 82 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TERYLENE, MELTY, MYLAR, MELENA, MENTEE, TRYNA, YEET, YER and TE, 9 in all.