Unscramble LIEF and you have 14 words, LIEF itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: FILE and LIFE. ELF, FIE and FIL are the best of the shorter words, at 6 points. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from LIEF split into 3 with 4 letters, 5 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of LIEF but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with LI · ending in EF · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to LIEF:
The meaning of LIEF, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LIEF, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIEF itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 14) | 13 | 13 | 12 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: FE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
With one more tile, the letters of LIEF spell the words below.