No word spells IENAL. Unscramble IENAL instead and you have 42 words, and 5 share the top score of 5, among them ALIEN, ALINE and ANILE. It has 5 letters, 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
I1E1N12A1L12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from IENAL by length: 5 with 5 letters, 12 with 4, 13 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of IENAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AL · ending in EN · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ALIEN, ALINE, ANILE, ELAIN and LIANE (5 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
None of the three games accepts IENAL itself. Its letters still make 42 playable words, split by game below.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| IENAL itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 36 | 42 | 36 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 6 of them: AINE, EINA, NEAL, EAN, NIE and EA.
These 12 words take every letter of IENAL plus a single extra one.