147 words come out when you unscramble INFECTION, starting with INFECTION itself: 14 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from INFECTION by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 5 with 7, 15 with 6, 23 with 5, 50 with 4, 33 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Of the 50 4-letter words in INFECTION, 6 score 9 points, the group's best. INFO, NOTE and ONCE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of INFECTION but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with IN · ending in ON · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with CONFINE and FICTION (12 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
INFECTION works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INFECTION itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 147) | 117 | 146 | 103 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
29 of the 147 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FECIT, CONF, INCONIE, CONNIE, FIENT, CONNE, FENI, FENT, FINI, FOEN, FONE, NIEF and 17 more. 14 of the 147 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: COTININE, FINITO, INCENT, NEONIC, ONCET, ECO, FE, INNIE, TEC, TENNO, NONI, TEIN and 2 more. 1 of the 147 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
With one more tile, the letters of INFECTION spell the words below.