Unscramble GINNELS to get 98 words. GINNELS itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 8 points: LENSING. 5 shorter words score 7, among them SINGLE, ENSIGN and LIGNES. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of GINNELS in one turn: 58 in Scrabble (8 + 50), 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from GINNELS split into 2 with 7 letters, 6 with 6, 19 with 5, 35 with 4, 27 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Of the 35 4-letter words from GINNELS, 19 score 5 points, the group's best. LINE, SIGN and NINE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of GINNELS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with GI · ending in LS · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with LENSING (8 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: GINNELS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GINNELS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 98) | 75 | 98 | 70 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
23 of the 98 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GINNELS, GINNEL, LIGNES, GLEIS, LENGS, LIGNE, ELSIN, GINN, GLEI, INGS, LENG, LIGS and 11 more. 5 of the 98 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NEGS, GIS, NEG, SIG and GI.
With one more tile, the letters of GINNELS spell the words below.