Unscramble ELVAN and you have 36 words, ELVAN itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. ELVAN has 2 anagrams here, NAVEL and VENAL, scoring 8 like ELVAN itself. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ELVAN split into 3 with 5 letters, 13 with 4, 11 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of ELVAN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with EL · ending in AN · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; NAVEL and VENAL (8 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts ELVAN, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELVAN itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 36) | 30 | 36 | 29 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 6 of them: ELVAN, AVEL, VAE, NEAL, EAN and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: NAV.
These 12 words take every letter of ELVAN plus a single extra one.