192 words come out when you unscramble FACTOIDAL, starting with FACTOIDAL itself: 15 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is FACTOID, 13 points. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from FACTOIDAL by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 12 with 6, 36 with 5, 60 with 4, 58 with 3 and 23 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among 36 5-letter words from FACTOIDAL, the top score is 10, reached by 6. FLOAT, FATAL and FOCAL are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble FACTOIDAL, 8 score 9 points, the group's best. FACT, FLAT and COLD are the ones most people know.
CAF tops the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble FACTOIDAL at 8 points; next come DIF and DOF on 7. OLD, ACT and LOT will look familiar.
Trade one tile of FACTOIDAL for another and you can spell these 5 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with FA · ending in AL · all 9-letter words
FACTOIDAL first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
FACTOIDAL is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FACTOIDAL itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 192) | 152 | 190 | 140 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
38 of the 192 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AFOCAL, CAFILA, OLFACT, AFALD, ATOCIA, CALID, COAITA, DIACT, FOID, CITAL, DICT, DOF and 26 more. 12 of the 192 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FACTOIDAL, FACTA, FOLIC, CAF, DIF, ACAI, CLIT, CAL, LOC, ODA, DA and OI. 2 of the 192 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ALF and FI.