277 words come out when you unscramble FORERUNNING, starting with FORERUNNING itself: 15 in Scrabble, 20 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 11: 9 of them, FOREIGN, GUNFIRE and FENNING included. The 11 letters split into 4 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from FORERUNNING by length: 1 with 11 letters, 1 with 9, 2 with 8, 26 with 7, 43 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 24 with 2. None has 10 letters.
RERUNNING is the only one of the 9-letter words made with FORERUNNING letters; it scores 10 points.
9 of 26 7-letter words you get when you unscramble FORERUNNING tie at 11 points; none scores more. RUNNING, FOREIGN and REUNION will look familiar.
Of the 43 6-letter words from FORERUNNING, 7 score 10 points, the group's best. REGION, FIGURE and IGNORE are the ones most people know.
13 of 60 5-letter words made with FORERUNNING letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. INNER, ROUGE and FORGE will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble FORERUNNING, 5 score 8 points, the group's best. INFO, FOUR and NONE are the ones most people know.
60 3-letter words from FORERUNNING; 5 of them share the top score of 7. FUN, INN and GUN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of FORERUNNING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with FO · ending in NG · all 11-letter words
The meaning of FORERUNNING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FORERUNNING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORERUNNING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 277) | 191 | 276 | 175 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 85 of them: FERNING, FERRUGO, FONNING, FROING, ENURNING, FINNER, FORREN, FROREN, FRORNE, FUGIE, GROUF, GRUFE and 73 more. Words With Friends* skips 16 of them: FENNING, FENING, FREON, ENUF, GIF, RUEING, REORG, FE, INRUN, NINER, GRR, NEG and 4 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.