Unscramble FRIGHTFUL and you have 112 words, FRIGHTFUL itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. RIGHTFUL is the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
F4R1I1G23H43T1F4U12L12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from FRIGHTFUL by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 3 with 6, 22 with 5, 41 with 4, 32 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 7 letters.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in FRIGHTFUL: RIGHTFUL, 15 points.
HUFF tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble FRIGHTFUL at 13 points; next come GUFF on 11 and LUFF on 10. GIFT, GIRL and LIFT will look familiar.
IFF scores highest among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble FRIGHTFUL at 9 points, ahead of FIG and FUG on 7. HIT, FIT and FLU are the ones most people know.
This word has the length of FRIGHTFUL, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with FR · ending in UL · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by RIGHTFUL (15 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FRIGHTFUL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRIGHTFUL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 112) | 92 | 110 | 89 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
18 of the 112 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FURTH, TRIFF, GLIFT, THIG, LITH, HUI, LURGI, GLIT, GURL, GUR, LIG, LUIT and 6 more. 3 of the 112 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FLIR, GIF and GI. 2 of the 112 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI and UGLI.