Unscramble INNERVING and you have 81 words, INNERVING itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 11: 4 of them, NERVING, REIVING and RIEVING included. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from INNERVING split into 1 with 9 letters, 8 with 7, 12 with 6, 16 with 5, 16 with 4, 22 with 3 and 6 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Keep every letter of INNERVING but one, change that one, and you get:
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INNERVING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. INNERVING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INNERVING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 81) | 62 | 81 | 57 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 19 of them: RIEVING, VIRING, VIRGE, RENNING, VINER, ENRING, ERNING, GIRNIE, INGINE, VIRE, ERING, GREIN and 7 more. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: VIN, INNIE, NINER, NEG and GI.
This word takes every letter of INNERVING plus a single extra one.