Unscramble FANBOY and you have 46 words, FANBOY itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. BOYF is the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. It has 6 letters, 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from FANBOY by length: 1 with 6 letters, 5 with 4, 23 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 5 letters.
Trade one tile of FANBOY for another and you can spell these 4 words:
More 6-letter words: starting with FA · ending in OY · all 6-letter words
What FANBOY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
FANBOY 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FANBOY itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 46) | 36 | 45 | 34 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 9 of them: BOYF, FY, BONA, NOY, ONY, BAO, BON, NY and OB. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: FANBOY, FAB and OBA. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 1 of them: OFAY.
Each word below uses all the letters of FANBOY and one more.