Unscramble FORAMINA and you have 160 words, FORAMINA itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
F4O1R1A1M34I1N12A1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from FORAMINA by length: 1 with 8 letters, 7 with 6, 25 with 5, 59 with 4, 48 with 3 and 20 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 59 4-letter words from FORAMINA, 5 score 9 points, the group's best. INFO, FORM and MAIN are the ones most people know.
The best of the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble FORAMINA is FAM, 8 points; ARF and FAA on 6 follow. MAN, AIR and MAR are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of FORAMINA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with FO · ending in NA · all 8-letter words
The meaning of FORAMINA, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FORAMINA, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORAMINA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 160) | 134 | 158 | 122 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FRAIM, MAINOR, FAAN, MARON, MINAR, MORIA, NORMA, FAA, FRA, MINO, MIRO, MOAI and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: FAM, RAMONA, AFRO, AMNIO, RAMIN, MANI, MARA, MOI, OMA, ARO, RAI and OI, 12 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: AFOAM and FI, 2 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of FORAMINA spell the words below.