Unscramble FLANGERS and you have 242 words, FLANGERS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
F4L12A1N12G23E1R1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from FLANGERS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 11 with 7, 32 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 18 with 2.
32 6-letter words in FLANGERS; 4 of them share the top score of 10. ANGELS, RANGES and ANGLES are everyday picks.
Among 60 5-letter words from FLANGERS, the top score is 9, reached by 5. LARGE, RANGE and FALSE are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble FLANGERS, 6 score 8 points, the group's best. SELF, SAFE and GEAR are the ones most people know.
Among the 3-letter words from FLANGERS, FAG and FEG tie for first at 7 points. ARE, AGE and FAR are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of FLANGERS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with FL · ending in RS · all 8-letter words
What FLANGERS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FLANGERS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLANGERS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 242) | 186 | 240 | 173 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
54 of the 242 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FANGLES, FANGLE, SALFERN, FLASER, FLEGS, ERLANGS, FARSE, FEALS, FEGS, FLANE, FLEG, LANGERS and 42 more. 13 of the 242 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: REFLAGS, REFLAG, SNARFLE, FERALS, SNARF, FES, GEANS, RANGS, AREG, FE, GEAN, AGS and 1 more. 2 of the 242 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ALFS and ALF.
With one more tile, the letters of FLANGERS spell the words below.