Unscramble GUILEFUL and you have 61 words, GUILEFUL itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
G23U12I1L12E1F4U12L12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from GUILEFUL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 5 with 5, 21 with 4, 23 with 3 and 9 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of GUILEFUL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with GU · ending in UL · all 8-letter words
What GUILEFUL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GUILEFUL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUILEFUL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 61) | 48 | 59 | 45 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
11 of the 61 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FLUGEL, FUGIE, FLEG, FEG, GLEI, GULE, GUE, LIG, GU, UG and ULE. 3 of the 61 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: GIF, FE and GI. 2 of the 61 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI and UGLI.