Unscramble INSTRUCTIONAL and you have 494 words, INSTRUCTIONAL itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is INCRUSTATION, 14 points. It has 13 letters, 5 vowels and 8 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from INSTRUCTIONAL by length: 1 with 13 letters, 1 with 12, 9 with 11, 32 with 10, 60 with 9, 60 with 8, 60 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 31 with 2.
INCRUSTATION is the only one of the 12-letter words in INSTRUCTIONAL; it scores 14 points.
7 of 9 11-letter words made with INSTRUCTIONAL letters tie at 13 points; none scores more. INSTRUCTION and NUTRITIONAL will look familiar.
Of the 32 10-letter words from INSTRUCTIONAL, 24 score 12 points, the group's best. TRANSITION, CONSULTANT and CONSTRAINT are the ones most people know.
60 9-letter words you get when you unscramble INSTRUCTIONAL; 54 of them share the top score of 11. INCLUSION, CITATIONS and INTRUSION are everyday picks.
All 60 of the 8-letter words in INSTRUCTIONAL score 10 points. CONTAINS, AUCTIONS and CONSTANT are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 7-letter words made with INSTRUCTIONAL letters scores 9. AUCTION, ACTIONS and CONTAIN are everyday picks.
The 6-letter words you get when you unscramble INSTRUCTIONAL come to 60, each scoring 8 points. ACTION, CASINO and ACTORS are the familiar ones.
All 60 of the 5-letter words from INSTRUCTIONAL score 7 points. COAST, CANON and COINS are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 4-letter words in INSTRUCTIONAL scores 6. COST, CART and CARS are everyday picks.
Of the 60 3-letter words made with INSTRUCTIONAL letters, 27 score 5 points, the group's best. CAN, ITS and CAR are the ones most people know.
These 6 words have the length of INSTRUCTIONAL, with one letter different:
More 13-letter words: starting with IN · ending in AL · all 13-letter words
What INSTRUCTIONAL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept INSTRUCTIONAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSTRUCTIONAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 494) | 384 | 494 | 339 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ASTRICTION, CRUSTATION, CURTATIONS, INCRUSTANT, LUCTATIONS, NATURISTIC, NOCTURNALS, RUCTATIONS, ACTIONIST, ANICONIST, CLINOSTAT, CURIALIST and 97 more, 109 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: NICTATIONS, ANTICULTS, CONSTRUAL, CONTRALTI, CUISINART, CURATIONS, LICTORIAN, NICTATION, NONSTATIC, STRICTION, SULCATION, TRICLOSAN and 34 more, 46 in all. Not in Scrabble US: CUNT.
With one more tile, the letters of INSTRUCTIONAL spell the words below.