Unscramble EMBATTLE and you have 142 words, EMBATTLE itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. BEAMLET is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from EMBATTLE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 8 with 6, 18 with 5, 58 with 4, 39 with 3 and 17 with 2.
BEAMLET is the only one of the 7-letter words made with EMBATTLE letters; it scores 11 points.
Of the 58 4-letter words from EMBATTLE, 6 score 8 points, the group's best. TEAM, ABLE and MEET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of EMBATTLE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EM · ending in LE · all 8-letter words
EMBATTLE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. EMBATTLE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMBATTLE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 142) | 113 | 142 | 110 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 29 of them: BEAMLET, EMBALE, MELBA, BATLET, BATTEL, BELATE, ABLET, ALBEE, BLATT, ALBE, BAEL, BETE and 17 more. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: BEAL, BAE and TE.
These 6 words take every letter of EMBATTLE plus a single extra one.