Unscramble MELBA and you have 47 words, MELBA itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. MELBA has 2 anagrams here, AMBLE and BLAME, scoring 9 like MELBA itself. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from MELBA by length: 3 with 5 letters, 18 with 4, 14 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Trade one tile of MELBA for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with ME · ending in BA · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by AMBLE and BLAME (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts MELBA, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELBA itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 47) | 39 | 47 | 37 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MELBA, ALBE, BAEL, LEAM, MELA, AME, MAL and EA, 8 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BEAL and BAE, 2 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of MELBA spell the words below.