Unscramble ENLIGHTENER and you have 317 words, ENLIGHTENER itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is LENGTHENER, 14 points. 11 letters: 4 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ENLIGHTENER by length: 1 with 11 letters, 1 with 10, 7 with 9, 11 with 8, 41 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Just 1 of the 10-letter words in ENLIGHTENER: LENGTHENER, for 14 points.
12 of 41 7-letter words you get when you unscramble ENLIGHTENER tie at 11 points; none scores more. NEITHER, INTEGER and LIGHTER will look familiar.
Of the 60 6-letter words in ENLIGHTENER, 5 score 10 points, the group's best. EITHER, ENGINE and LENGTH are the ones most people know.
12 of 60 5-letter words made with ENLIGHTENER letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. THERE, RIGHT and THREE will look familiar.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ENLIGHTENER; 4 of them share the top score of 8. HERE, THEN and GIRL are everyday picks.
GHI scores highest among the 3-letter words from ENLIGHTENER at 7 points, ahead of ETH and HEN on 6. GET, LET and NET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ENLIGHTENER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with EN · ending in ER · all 11-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; LENGTHENER (14 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts ENLIGHTENER, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENLIGHTENER itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 317) | 233 | 316 | 221 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ENLIGHTENER, GEHLENITE, THEGNLIER, ENLIGHT, GHRELIN, HERLING, RIGHTEN, THEEING, HELING, HENNIER, HETING, EHING and 71 more, 83 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: GREENLIT, HENGE, HIREE, TREELINE, EELING, LENITE, REGIE, TENGE, GITE, NEG, GI and TE, 12 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of ENLIGHTENER spell the words below.