Unscramble MANCALA to get 42 words. MANCALA itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 11 points: ALMANAC. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of MANCALA at once for 61 in Scrabble (11 + 50) or 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from MANCALA split into 2 with 7 letters, 2 with 5, 15 with 4, 16 with 3 and 7 with 2. None has 6 letters.
Trade one tile of MANCALA for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with MA · ending in LA · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ALMANAC (11 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
MANCALA is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANCALA itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 30 | 42 | 28 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
12 of the 42 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MANCALA, CAMAN, CAMA, MACA, AMLA, MALA, NAAM, CAA, MAA, MAL, MNA and LANA. 2 of the 42 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CAL and NALA.
Each word below uses all the letters of MANCALA and one more.