Unscramble GROAN to get 36 words. GROAN itself is a real word: 6 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. 4 anagrams of GROAN are on the page: ARGON, NAGOR, ORANG and ORGAN, each 6 points. 7 shorter words score 5, among them GRAN, RANG and AGON. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from GROAN split into 5 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 15 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of GROAN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with GR · ending in AN · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to GROAN:
The meaning of GROAN, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GROAN, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROAN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 36) | 32 | 36 | 29 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 4 of them: NAGOR, GORA, RONG and GON. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: AGRO, ORG and ARO.
These 12 words take every letter of GROAN plus a single extra one.