Unscramble LAMENTABLY to get 273 words. LAMENTABLY itself is a real word: 17 points on a Scrabble board, 21 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, LAMBENTLY leads with 16 points. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
L12A1M34E1N12T1A1B34L12Y43
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from LAMENTABLY by length: 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 9, 5 with 8, 14 with 7, 44 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 27 with 2.
5 of 44 6-letter words you get when you unscramble LAMENTABLY tie at 13 points; none scores more. MENTAL, NAMELY and BATMAN will look familiar.
60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble LAMENTABLY; 5 of them share the top score of 12. MAYBE, LABEL and MEANT are everyday picks.
20 of 60 4-letter words from LAMENTABLY tie at 9 points; none scores more. MANY, ABLE and BALL will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words in LAMENTABLY, 8 score 8 points, the group's best. ALL, MAY and ANY are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of LAMENTABLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with LA · ending in LY · all 10-letter words
What LAMENTABLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LAMENTABLY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAMENTABLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 273) | 211 | 273 | 202 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
62 of the 273 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALLAYMENT, BELAMY, METALLY, AMYTAL, BAETYL, BELTMAN, BYLANE, MELLAY, YBLENT, BANYA, BAYLE, BEANY and 50 more. 9 of the 273 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ANALYTE, MELTY, MANEB, NETBALL, AMENTA, MANAT, BEAL, BAE and TE.