Unscramble ENLIGHTS and you have 251 words, ENLIGHTS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 12 points: LIGHTENS. The best shorter words score 11: 7 of them, ENGLISH, LENGTHS and LIGHTEN included. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ENLIGHTS split into 2 with 8 letters, 12 with 7, 39 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 18 with 2.
12 of 39 6-letter words from ENLIGHTS tie at 10 points; none scores more. THINGS, SINGLE and LENGTH will look familiar.
Among 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ENLIGHTS, the top score is 9, reached by 13. NIGHT, LIGHT and THING are the familiar ones.
60 4-letter words from ENLIGHTS; 5 of them share the top score of 8. THEN, SIGN and GETS are everyday picks.
GHI scores highest among the 3-letter words in ENLIGHTS at 7 points, ahead of EHS and ETH on 6. GET, ITS and SET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ENLIGHTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EN · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; LIGHTENS (12 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts ENLIGHTS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENLIGHTS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 251) | 196 | 251 | 181 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 55 of them: ENLIGHTS, ENLIGHT, HELING, HETING, EHING, ELSHIN, GHEST, HINGS, LITHES, SITHEN, TEHSIL, THIGS and 43 more. Words With Friends* skips 15 of them: SHITE, SNIGLET, SHEN, STINGE, GITES, INTELS, GITE, NEGS, GIS, NEG, SIG, EST and 3 more.
With one more tile, the letters of ENLIGHTS spell the words below.