Unscramble INELIGIBLE and you have 109 words, INELIGIBLE itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. ELIGIBLE and LIBELING are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 10 letters split into 5 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from INELIGIBLE split into 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 8, 4 with 7, 14 with 6, 21 with 5, 26 with 4, 32 with 3 and 9 with 2. None has 9 letters.
Keep every letter of INELIGIBLE but one, change that one, and you get:
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INELIGIBLE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. INELIGIBLE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INELIGIBLE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 109) | 81 | 109 | 76 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
27 of the 109 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BEIGEL, BELLINI, BILING, BINGLE, GIBEL, GIBLI, LEEING, LEGLEN, LEGLIN, LINGEL, LINGLE, NEBEL and 15 more. 6 of the 109 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BEIGNE, BLING, BING, EELING, NEG and GI. 1 of the 109 answers is missing from Scrabble US: NELLIE.
Each word below uses all the letters of INELIGIBLE and one more.