Unscramble ESCULENT and you have 173 words, ESCULENT itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 6 reach 8 points, SELECT, LUCENT and ELECTS among them. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from ESCULENT by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 13 with 6, 47 with 5, 60 with 4, 38 with 3 and 12 with 2.
18 of 47 5-letter words from ESCULENT tie at 7 points; none scores more. TEENS, STEEL and SCENE will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ESCULENT, the top score is 6, reached by 19. TEEN, SEEN and SENT are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of ESCULENT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with ES · ending in NT · all 8-letter words
ESCULENT first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. ESCULENT 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESCULENT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 173) | 141 | 173 | 131 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
30 of the 173 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CTENES, CTENE, UNCES, CENS, SCUL, SETULE, UNCE, UNSEEL, ETENS, NETES, STEEN, SUENT and 18 more. 12 of the 173 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CENTU, TECS, SUETE, TEC, UNSEE, ESNE, LUNS, EST, LUN, TES, UTE and TE. 2 of the 173 answers are missing from Scrabble US: CUNTS and CUNT.
These 5 words take every letter of ESCULENT plus a single extra one.