Unscramble ELOQUENCE and you have 61 words, ELOQUENCE itself among them: it scores 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. CLOQUE is the best of the shorter words, at 17 points. It has 9 letters, 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ELOQUENCE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 6, 8 with 5, 17 with 4, 20 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
Keep every letter of ELOQUENCE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with EL · ending in CE · all 9-letter words
ELOQUENCE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ELOQUENCE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELOQUENCE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 61) | 47 | 61 | 42 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
14 of the 61 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LEUCO, CLOU, UNCE, NEELE, NOULE, LOUN, NOLE, NOUL, EEN, ENE, LOU, ULE and 2 more. 5 of the 61 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: EOCENE, LEUCON, ECO, LOC and LUN.
With one more tile, the letters of ELOQUENCE spell the words below.