14 words come out when you unscramble FILE, starting with FILE itself: 7 in Scrabble, 8 in Words With Friends. FILE has 2 anagrams here, LIEF and LIFE, scoring 7 like FILE itself. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
F4I1L12E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from FILE split into 3 with 4 letters, 5 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of FILE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with FI · ending in LE · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to FILE:
What FILE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. FILE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FILE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 14) | 13 | 13 | 12 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: FE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
These 12 words take every letter of FILE plus a single extra one.